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July 27, 1938

Dear Dr. Schmitt:

Lunz wanted the enclosed letter forwarded to you. He said it was too good a chance to rib you, and he wants to take advantage of the opportunity.

I sent the 1924 Navy Conference report the other day. No one was able to find anything for 1925, so we all concluded that you had the date confused. I do hope I sent the right thing. Mrs. Clark called the Navy and talked to a man who sat in on that conference, and he said he was sure that was what you meant.

Michelson in the Bureau of Ethnology died yesterday. I never heard of him, but you may know him. He was sick for quite a long time.

It is getting hot again after about ten days of rain.

Florence says she is going to have her picture put in the paper with the caption, "I know Dr. Schmitt, who is with the President." She says, "I have to brag some way. I'm telling every one now that his secretary is one of my friends." You'll be the big potato when you get back here, all right!

I got my new glasses. I didn't go to your man, after all my tormenting you for his name. My doctor friend recommended another oculist whose fee was only $10, so i tried him. I haven't been back yet to have the lenses checked (he told me to come back in a week, and it isn't up yet), but they feel fine. I didn't realize how inadequate the old glasses had become. I don't  squint at my copy holder now and I haven't any more headaches, either.

Captian Johnson retired a few days ago. They took up a collection, as usual, and got a lot of money. They gave him a purse containing a hundered dollar bill!

Mr. Shoemaker says he hopes you are having a good time. He has just finished fixing up Hobbs' crayfish paper. It was a mess, and I am retyping most of it. Mr. Shoemaker is now working on the Panning paper, and groaning at the end of every sentence!

I heard over the radio that you will be in Panama next Thursday and Friday. If your time is too short, don't bother about my tablecloths. Maybe the war in China will have cut off the supply, anyway. If they don't have any, and you still have time to look for something for me, I could use a jade ring for a gift. I got one when I was there in the Hindu shop next door to Sahli's on the left for $4.00. If you should see one, get a plain one (not carved), with a longish set-- a little finger ring. The size of your little finger, or a bit smaller ought to be about right. I would like to give it
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