I have to hurry now, if I want to send you the letter that I have intended to write to you for many weeks. It is difficult to do what we want to do! Your summary which reached me this morning sounds very interesting and I am glad you were able to do so well with your difficult problem that you feel able to state your results so succinctly. I am very curious to see the material on which you base your conclusions. In regard to your report, I believe you do not need to take the requirements of a final report this year too strictly. The Research Council will be satisfied if they hear of your general results or the completion of your fieldwork. On the other hand you must remember that your new position will take a lot of time and that your thesis will have to be completed. I presume you will simply plod away at your observations on the boat and cozy down[?] will be a given. I should not spend too much time on a formal report which will only be pigeonholed. I think it would not be amiss to write a short report for publication in the Anthropologist. I am sorry I cannot meet you in Rome, but it will be impossible. You know that Ruth Benedict, Gladys and Oetteking will be there so we are well represented. I wish I could say something; but, although Samoa "belongs" to us (by what right?),* it is not known in a scientific sense. Before we know it you will be here. I hope you will have a pleasant time in Europe after all the hardships of this year.

* parentheses in original