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Stoughton, Mass,
      22 June 1934

Dear Sid: 
This morning I went to Cambridge with my binocular and traps and spent the day at the Museum.  Mr. Banks told me that 2 of his girls have gone to Wash DC and gotten jobs, but not in the government. Miss. Bartlett, a girl there last winter doing preparator's work, said her husband who was at the Melrose Sta. on cornborer work was being dismissed this July, and he seemed quite discouraged. Banks said he wished you would hurry up & get a job here and I could come & work on the Bowditch collection, that it needed someone badly. Darlington is going to St Domingo the last of July, Carpenter is out gathering fossil insects in Colorado. Parker & Wheeler retire this year, and there is some wonder who will succeed them. I had lunch in Miss Bryant's room, she supplying the tea and doing the talking. She was for 2 months in Jamaica last winter, and it rained most all the time, a very unusual season. She said the place was mountainous and not at all under cultivation on the highlands. 
It hasn't been quite as hot, but plenty warm. I came home on the 3.30 and was rather damp from sitting on a seat in the train from perspiration. I met Myrtie as I came home, and she walked up with me talking.