Folder 358

[first page of multi-page typed document on brittle yellowed paper]

January 1, 1932 [last digit punched out through paper and handwritten as a ‘2’]

Mr. Will Richard, Taxidermist, Cody, Wyoming Dear Richard:

I am delighted at the idea of your going on a trip around the world. That will be a grand adventure, and a rare privilege.

I see by the paper that Mr. Vladami [sic][name appears to have been erased and retyped], successor to Alexander Dowey and head of the Zionist [original word was erased and replaced with Zionist] Cult, who declares that the earth is flat and has four corners - because the Bible says so - is going on a trip around the world also; there strikes one as being something inconsistent there - if he does not look out he might fall over the edge and then there would be hell to pay.

There is an Italian firm which is seeking treasure lost on sunken ships by means of a newly devised diving tube which will take a man down over four hundred feet into the dim depths, but who is going to invent a tube which will rescue Mr. Vladima [name appears to have been erased and retyped] after he falls over the edge of the world into hell? Mr. Vladima [name appears to have been erased and retyped] has a special pull with the Almighty, but it will tax the workshops of heaven, even, to devise such a tube as he will need.

While working on the model of the Cougar group yesterday, which will be located on the north brink of the Grand Canyon, I kept wondering whether the edge of the world isn’t a good deal like that, and if so, Mr. Vladima [name appears to have been erased and retyped] would get a severe shaking up before he hit the bottom. Dr. Anthony, who is the