Dear mother, Given that the mating season has now finished, I think I will be returning home from my expedition. I have notebooks, I have papers and I have electro-magnetic media. Some of them are complete with records, some of them not: nevertheless, the age of my fieldwork is over, and I shall return to repose in the confines of the family home within a month, once my passage on a liner has been assured. Regarding your question about the state of Auntie George’s estate, I assent to your proposals save the third, which I feel to be somewhat indiscreet, if not disrespectful.