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November
19th
1934

U. S. Bureau of Fisheries
Seattle, Washington

My dear Sirs:-

Doctor Ales Hrdlicka, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, has suggested that I write to you for information. 

I hold a commission in the Reserve of the U.S. Public Health Service and was detailed to the NORTHLAND in 1929 and 1930 and made a research study of the health of the Eskimo from St. Michael, St. Lawrence Island to Barrow.

I am now planning to make a similar study of the natives from Bethel to Kwinak and along the rivers of the peninsular to the west hoping to get as far as the Kinak River this year.  I want to include Nunivak and Nelson Islands and up as far as Hooper Bay the following year.  Will you be good enough to give me information on the following questions:-

I. What are the sailing dates of the S.S. Tupper from Seattle?

II. How many days to Bethel?

III. Does she take the inside passage?

IV. Does one of your boats visit this region, and if so, about when?

V. Will it be necessary for me to take my own boat up?  There are two from here and I shall hope to get some one at Bethel who can talk Eskimo to go with us.  We can run our own boat if we have to take one.  We shall want to live aboard.

VI. Can you give me information as to the best type of boat for the shallow waters?

VII. Could I find a used one in Seattle and if so, at about what price?  Should prefer to buy a good hull and install the power plant under my specifications if possible.

VIII. Can you suggest a good moderate-priced boat builder in Seattle? We shall be compelled to keep the cost as low as possible.

Thanking you,

Yours very truly
L. M. Waugh
Professor of Dentistry
Director Orthodontic Clinic

LMW.J