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June 11, 1957. Dear Phil, At last the formal academic requirements are out of the way and with graduation last June 5th I finally received the PhD degree. I can now start to work more intensively and continuously on other projects I have had to work at only a little at a time. I had not forgotten you and have been working during much of my free time in writing up the materials from the Nevada caves. However, certain aspects of the report I had held off un­til I was to receive some more things from the travelling exhibit. In this regard the tabulations will have to be changed as well as possibly some of the generalities I have made. Also before publi­cation I would like to give numbers to the rest of the items. I did not make any comparative interpretations, except for Lovelock wicker which is fairly obvious. I want to go to the UC Berkeley museum and see the collections from Lovelock and Humboldt caves and also get some Catlow twined examples loaned from Cressman to examine before attempting any comparison, I had hoped to go up to the museum before the end of the semester, but dissertation and Southwest Museum work were too demanding of my time to get away. I will probably be publishing my dissertation in the UC Anthrop. Records series, but before doing so I will need to fill out my eth­nological distribution charts and I also want to check archaeologi­cal collections and can do most, if not all, of this at the Berkeley museum in which case I can apply this information to the Lake Winne-mucca basketry report should you so desire. The report is fairly complete as is, except possibly for a few details. The basketry and matting of the travelling exhibit should be Included. 1 realise there are too many photos and will need to be cut down for financial reasons. Being somewhat pressed for time and to cut down words, I made reference to Illustrations as an expedient. The line drawings were dashed off quickly as you can see, but was not sure how they would be included - separately scattered through the text or as a unit - so I arranged them as they are to give you an idea. Since they would probably have to conform to certain proportions, size, spacing, etc. and not being awaye of these particulars, careful work would seem a wasted effort, the photos of matting that I have should he done over. When there is more than one item per photo, the letter indication is made under the photo because I didn't have a lettering pen. I have given you the best copies of these photos so they should be the ones used. It would be more economical to plan to combine two or more of these photos to appear on one page thaA one per page. Possibly more de­tail could be Included in the plate captions. Design elements can be done in line drawings rather than by photos, but again this takes time. There are several minor technical individual things which have not been included in the text such as addition of new warps and wefts, but since you wanted this as a preliminary report, I imagine they can wait for the final monograph. The introduction possibly