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Walter Sherwood3 used to send me once a year (usually in the month of February) a statement of what funds I had to my credit in the Peoples-Webster County Bank and what my indebtedness was for service, box rent, etc. I wonder if you could send me such a statement some time during the next four weeks?
Now that Mr. Crowell4 has been able to sell for
a little real money one of the farms on which I had a mortgage, I am enclosing a
check for $300 for which I hope the bank will send me a draft. It has been 'pay out'
and no 'pay in' for so long on those Western farms, that I would particularly enjoy
using that money to have some closed bookcases built after my own design. Since
New York2 has gone over so largely to
soft coal, the open bookcases which a carpenter made years ago are causing the ruin
of many valuable, and now irreplaceable, books. Nearly all of the oldest publishing
houses and printing establishments in England5 have been completely annihilated. My own publisher, Cassell,6 wrote me last spring asking me
whether I had any account of the royalties they have sent me during the last eight
years. All their ledgers and records of payments to their authors were destroyed by
fire when the London7 offices were
bombed., and they are trying to make a new
set from such information as they can get from their writers.