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September 5, 1941
Mr. Leonard Wing
The State College of Washington
Pullman, Washington
Dear Leonards
I am glad you don't feel badly about my passing you up.
I really was so overloaded with impressions that I had
urgent need of a respite. I am much interested in your
comments on Oregon. If you care to tell me confidentially
the current opinion of individuals, I'll be clad to tell
you mine. One can't judge these units in exrotly the same
way as one would an academic departments for they have a
public and conservation department to please as well as
a scientific audience. My impressions at Oregon were more
favorable than I had anticipated.
Your budget is certainly impressive on the minus side.
Does your department decline to .,ive the Pittman-Robertson
funds?
I am making a desperate attempt to catch up on my own
writings and can't give anybody else's manuscripts enough
time to be worth talking about. I doubt very much whether
a very superficial examination would be of any use to you.
Under these circumstances, do just as you think best about
the manuscript. Naturally I am curious and interested, but
I simply must devote the fall to my own work.
With best regards,
Aldo Leopold
Professor of Wildlife Management