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So that was how I met him. Of course I didn't know his name; I didn't see him.

HENSON: Right, you didn't know who it was.

MANN: So afterwards I asked the librarian, "Who was sitting at the other desk?" She said, "Oh, that was Dr. Mann. Surely you know Dr. Mann." No. Well, I actually met him at a friend's house later at dinner.

That was just shortly before I left Washington. In then summer of '22, I went to Europe and then back to Ann Arbor--bored with Ann Arbor, went to New York to seek my fortune. So it was four years later that I got married.

That letter you mentioned, that would have been about 1925. One of my friends in the Bureau of Entomology wrote me and told me that Dr. Mann had now been made director of the zoo [National Zoological Park]. I knew how crazy he was about the zoo, wonderful. It just fitted, you know, the square peg in the square hole, so I wrote him a letter. I hadn't seen him then for three years, so the next time he came up to New York he called me up. That was at the time he was getting ready for the Chrysler Expedition to Africa, so he was in New York quite often--arrangements with the Chrysler people, and [[underlined]] Pathe [Review][[underlined]], who sent a movie man along on the expedition. He was up, and then we eventually got engaged, and I would come down to Washington one weekend, and stay at the Dodge Hotel, which was a very proper place for ladies only. He was living at the Cosmos Club, so we did our courting out in Farragut