Form 375? Whoops!

It's possible that I'm making too little of today's entry, but my aversion to bureaucratic forms is kicking in.

Apparently, there was some delay in receiving a Form 375 from Adams.  Form 375 was the standardized Application for Employment of 1941.

This is the part where anyone who knows me is asking, "How do you know what the Application for Employment was in 1941?  You're no historian of bureaucracy."  Well, that's true, but I am reasonably adept with Google:

     "form 375" department interior

Result #1 (to this not-terribly-complex search): Peter La Chapelle's Proud to be an Okie.  There's an endnote about a 1941 application for Department of the Interior employment for one Woodrow W. Guthrie.  "Woody's" application was on a Form 375.

Moving on.

Adams' form was apparently delayed (No clue why), which in turn delayed his appointment, leading to a separate letter from Ickes, authorizing Adams to photograph "on Indian reservations, reclamation projects and National Parks."  That's the letter from my last entry.  It's dated prior to this one; but Western Union, while not quite so quick as e-mail, would have beaten the last letter to Adams, even if it was sent by air mail.

Form 375? Whoops!