AT HAIWARB COZ.2JBC.JE:
November 26, 1930
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DIRECTOR'S ROOM
Dr. F. Drevermann
Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft Viktoria-Allee 7 Frankfurt a. M., Germany
Dear Dr. Drevermann:
Do you happen to know the man who writes me the enclosed letter? I am sending this to you in strictest confidence because I heard that someone had secured a considerable part of the rarer humming-birds from the Berlepsch collection in a way which was not strictly honorable and that these specimens were lacking when your Museum got the collection.
Of course there are specimens which he mentions that we would like very much - particularly Neolesbia, which perhaps you could let us have in exchange. In any case I do not feel like trying to get the money to purchase this cällection without knowing whether the owner has a moral, as well as a legal, right to seil it.
Will you kindly examine this letter and return it to me with any Information which you may see fit to give me. I must say I thihk the price is very high and that, on ithe whole, it is more than we could pay in any case.
Sincerely yours,