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U.S.S.Houston
San Pedro, Cal
Sept. 14, 1938
Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt
Dear Sir-
Here is a bit of chronological information acompanied by a question which is of great import-
ance to me. Now getting back to the info. I got an egg from CoCos Island during one of your trips over. I put the egg in my clothes locker and much to my surprise about three weeks later it hatched out, while we were at Norfolk, VA. Now I have a three weeks old bird on my hands, I have brought him along so far on the yolk of boild egg and raw fish cut in small bits. Have I fed him propperly? Now he seems to have contracted a cold