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The cocktail party.  Fenner & I did not get back for it till near 7, must have been quite a success including us 4 & Capt. 20 people came & went in course of evening & most drank rum & water with ice. & Mr August Smith & Robt Lord, [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] are in lumber business here (id has 300 sq. miles land much of it timbered hillsides) partners were there with wives as was administrator & wife.

The one man whom I met back in '37 on the Hartford Cruise was Stephen Haweis who did some of the illustrations for the fish part of the Smithsonian Sci. Series (Hildebrand).  Today he is a little not quite wizened old man who still has a home (house up in the hills back of town. Is an artist but must have some other sort of income to make a go of it here. Doesn't take much but to go to States and to Europe takes some. He left on the banana boat ("[[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] Martha Reuter) for England this very night of the party at midnight.  Was a friend or perhaps house guest at Bill Mann's that time he did those drawings.