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considered private to anyone acting for him yet I thought and still think that it is likely that some purely private matter has found its way into the official letter Book and I was therefore unable to press for possession of it. I was further informed by Dr Doberck that all I would require for carrying on correspondence with Government departments was the current number of his latest letter, with which he supplied me, from which I inferred, perhaps somewhat hastily, that he had left his correspondence in such form that there would be no occasion to refer to what had previously passed between the Government and the Director of the Observatory.
I have … (signed) John J. Hummer, Acting Director, ARO