Letter from Thomas Gold to Dr John B Slaughter, Assistant Director AAEO, National Science Foundation, 1800 G Street, N.W., Washington DC States they are still vey anxious to know whether they will have to abandon all work on outgassing of the Earth, and dismiss the people who have been working with Gold on this, or whether some solution can be found that will allow them to manitain the two critical persons for as long as it will take to get a fresh evalutaion, They are at the moment completely out of funds. 6 December 1978