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Baker Ave, Westport, Connecticut.
September 2, 1926

Dear Tupeyashi:

I have been hoping to get a line from you, especially with regard to the Salt Cave things I gave you in the field, for, naturally, we do not want to take from our collection stuff that you are already well supplied with. So please write me a letter [[crossed-out]] info [[/crossed-out]] saying that while you are already supplied with stone hammer-heads and certain other things (naming them) you still need examples of [[crossed-out]] speci [[/crossed-out]] other [[crossed-out]] ca [[/crossed-out]] classes of specimens. Or if you still have not enough of the sorts of things I gave you in camp, do not hesitate to say so. 

I am supposed to be on vacation for the month of September; but I expect to go into the Museum some day, and while there- if Orchard is back- I'll get out the fine painted bowl and the duck-shaped bottle that are on exhibition now, but which were picked out to send you. Both are from Pueblo Grande. 

A [[crossed-out]] room [[/crossed-out]] rumor has reached me, via St Thomas and La Jolla, that Willis and Jessie have parted? Is there any truth in it? I hope not- the very idea is most distressing to me, for you know what I thought of both of them. Anna got it from Mrs Nutter, who heard it reported in St Thomas; and Anna feels very badly too and hopes it is not true. 

I have not heard from Willis in some time, although in my last letter I asked him [[crossed-out]] fr [[/crossed-out]] for an early decision on whether he [[crossed-out]] was going [[/crossed-out]] and Jessie would come with me to Texas or not. His last letter spoke of their expecting an addition to the family, and he wanted to know for sure that there was some place in the district where she could be properly taken care of when the time came.  And now I hear they have parted!

It looks now as if Anna, Mrs Johns and Sonny will stay at La Jolla until along in October, then go to Beaumont Texas [[crossed-out]] fot [[/crossed-out]] for the winter, for Beaumont will probably be my nearest large town. So I fear they will not be able to get up to Carson to see you and Ethyl after all, but will go east via El Paso and San Antonio.

I have had a long talk with Mr Skinner, also acouple of letter from Mrs S. Their parting is an amicable one all right, and Mr S is support-her, and all that, but I doubt if they will ever really live together again. The last I heard, Esther Mary was to have her tonsils taken out. 

On August 17th, the first anniversary of that fatal day, Howard Smolleck and I went over to Moravian Cemetery and Staten Island, and held the pipe-ceremony there in honor of Alanson, and decorated his grave. Some of the flowers came from Dorothy, some from my family. 

By the way, Mr Heye seemed very sorry to have missed you that day you called and he happened to be out, and bawled me out in a good-natured but effective fashion because I had not seen to it that you did see him some other day. 

Well, old comrade! Compañero mio! I hate to think that you and your Little Wife are so far away. For as I wrote your sister the other day there are few people in this world that I think as much of as I do you. Write me soon, for time is getting short. 

With love to you both
Sincerely your friend