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U.S.F.S. ALBATROSS,
Sausalito, California,
March 17, 1914.

Mr. Edward Driscoll, 
512 Twenty-second Ave. South,
Seattle, Wash.

Dear Sir:

Unless ^[[our program is]] altered by unforeseen circumstances, we shall arrive at Seattle on April 17th.

At your discretion you may pay as high as $3.00 per day for fisherman. We wish thoroughly reliable and competent men. These men will take orders from you, and you will have the authority to discharge any of them on our return to port, should their conduct be such as to render their presence undesirable on board. Regarding the matter of bringing liquor aboard, you might inform the fisherman that this is contrary to our regulations. Quite a bit of trouble was occasioned on this score by one fisherman employed on the 1911 cruise. We had one very good fisherman aboard on that cruise. All that I know about him is that his name was Frits, and that we shipped him  at Seattle.

The gear doubtless will have to be bought now, as you suggest. Our gear, as far as I can tell, is in pretty good shape, but it was bought second-hand in 1911, at $7.00 the skate. The line and hooks were separated and stored separately at the conclusion of that cruise.