Nov 8 - 0900 to 90 Church Street. Long wait. Cholera and typhus inoculations. 1130 to LIFE Magazine. 1400 to 1630 sorting through files. 1915 to Cosmopolitan Club to hear Lieut. John Mason Brown, USSR, give lecture "To All Hands".

Nov 10 - Standing by for orders. Saddle soaping leather gear. 1330 to 90 Church Street to collect negatives of photographic reproductions as ordered by Commander Long. 1500 to publishers till 1650.

Nov 11 - 0900 stowing photographic reproductions in files and searching for all negatives to send to Commander Long. Standing by for orders.

Nov 12 - Standing by. At 1500 to publishers end got page proof. 1900 Lieut. Parsons telephoned on office business.

I am entirely secured and standing by for orders to the Combat Area.