[March 4, 1939] Saturday afternoon

I n the second place I am in a hur ry to tell you how very pleased I am with the statement on "Culture Areas in Guatemala." I think it clears a lot of ground and lays out some of the fundamental axes of the ethnological work. O f course it is in part a re-statement of some parts of the Municipios paper, and says where we should go on from there. I t should, I think, properly come first in the work-in-progress report. I propose to put i t in immediately after the statement of fieldwork progress (giving you credit for authorship). I should like to change its title to "Problems of Geographic Distribution." This wi l l be a statement of the ethnological framework; then wi l l follow some statements of sociological frameworks. I am all enthused about our report now; I think we are going to have something that wi l l last. Something like this:

I . Status of Fieldwork I I . Problems for investigation

1. Problems of Geographic Distribution of Social and Cultural Fact (you have wri t ten it)

2. Problems of Culture Type and Culture Change ( I have wri t ten it)

3. Problems of Ethnic Relations ( I have almost finished wr i t ing it)

4. Special Problems in Economics (You to write it) 5. Special Problems as to Social and Political

Organization (you to write i t) .