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% Allen & Unwin

May 3, 1951

Dear Miss Carson:

This is only a note to thank you for your kindness in
sending me your wonderful book. I am in the midst of writing
an ethnographic work but could not drop your book when I
picked it up. It does good to see that a serious and conscien-
tious writer can grasp the fascinating sides of the science and
beauty of the sea and its story in such a way as you have mas-
tered it. My heartiest congratulations.