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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20560

January 7, 1972

Mrs. Emmy Lou Packard
3350 18th Street
San Francisco, California 94110

Dear Mrs. Packard:

You must have wondered why I did not acknowledge your nice letter of November 5th. It arrived during a brief sojourn here between two trips to California. I had hardly returned from the second trip when Joan and I gathered our Christmas presents together and drove to New England to be there over the holidays with our respective elderly mothers. Now I am catching up on a horrendous backlog of unfinished work.

First, I am so sorry to hear that you have been in the hospital. I trust you are now on the mend again. We would like to have had one of the peace signs, but one would like to think that perhaps there will be some real peace and we won't need those signs anymore.

How splendid that the Mendocino Headlands bill was signed by the governor. That is just wonderful. Naturally I am very pleased to think that we were able to have an influential part in bringing this about.

I will see to it that the jackscrew is acknowledged properly. We are delighted to have the chair which I presume has been properly acknowledged already.

Did you know that Joan and I are the proud owners of a little house on the edge of Tomales Bay above Marshall? We are trying to make it habitable by piecemeal efforts, but it is a little hard to do this in the short bursts that our time allows us in the west. We look forward to spending as much time as we can in this beautiful spot which will serve as a transition place on the way to my retirement.

With very best wishes for the new year from both of us,

Sincerely,
Malcolm
C. Malcolm Watkins
Chairman
Department of Cultural History