My dear Stewart:



Your good and encouraging letter was awaiting me when I returned from a trip into Colorado on the 19th.  I also received a letter from Dr. Pack which was written the first.  He said that the delay on their part had been due to delay in receiving a sum of money due them from the government.  As it is a little late he asked me to tell them frankly whether I thought it best to begin now or to wait until spring.  I am writing him that I could nto help them out in the spring, and I judged from your letters that the Carnegie Museum could spare me now can work to advantage and try to get it out before the coldest part of the winter.



I have written Professor Pack that there si some office work including packing specimens, cataloguing, completing records etc. that I must do for the Carnegie Museum, and I have told him that for a month or so I could probably devote about one half of my time to the work for the state and perhaps more later.  He has understood that I would oversee the matter but that I could not devote my whole time to it.  We have had a summers work that is gratifying to me, and I am hopeful that it will be so to the Museum; yet, for reasons which I am hopeful that it will be so to the Museum; yet, for reasons which I will state when I have more time I hope that I may have a few days more in the field this fall.  If matters can be arranged, it seems to me that in February and March would be good time to time to go east and study in the museums.



I want to thank you for writing frankly as you did.  I am extremely interested in making these collections and in trying to decipher these records of the past and I wish our museum to have the collections.  I believe, too, that in time they will try to make better conditions for those who have helped to make the museum what it is.  Personally I now believe that you have the executive ability combined with the broad, genial personality which will make those who are under you do their best.



Earl Douglass