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305 Blair Blvd
Eugene, Oregon
January 28, 1951

Dear Mr. Heye:

This will acknowledge receipt of your Telegram of even date, and at the same time to advise the "Mask" will be mailed to your address at once.

I was fortunate indeed to come upon this unusually fine artifact and trust it may be of some assistance in helping to trace the origin of the Ancient Shell Mound People of whom so little is known at this time.

I often recall a remark I happened to overhear sometime ago regarding a teacher of Geology who happened to wear a beard. One of the students disagreed with some of his opinions regarding a certain structure and remarked that brains did not grow in whiskers.

Personally, I did not like the remark, but in a way the student was right, for now there is a producing oil field where the old Professor said and