Dear Mr. Anderson: -

I have your letter of the 27th and unless unavoidably prevented, will come to Franklin Thursday the 10th. I am always subject to delays at the last minute in case of important funerals that I cannot leave. I conduct the service tomorrow for a brother of Mr. Crosby, and buried one of our oldest members last week.

As to the International Co. I should not be a party to any scheme that would use any part of the $5,000.00 that you might get now in the hopeless effort to do anything with the foreign patents. We could not even get hold of the patents without satisfying Mr. Hannah's claim of $1,000.00 for "Legal Services." The thing is utterly gone to smash, and the only thing to do is to wait till the ten years expires, which will happen now before we can get the machine on the market in any case; and my contract for future patents will then terminate, even through the International Co. is still alive. The future patents are all we have abroad anyway. And in present European conditions it is useless to think of pressing the sale of them. The thing to do is to get the business started in a small way in Franklin, if possible, bending every energy to that one object until it is carried through. If the International Co. is now alive it will live six months longer. In my opinion it is dead.

I do not know how many cuts Hollister prepared. I gave him material for ten. We need about thirty. It would take three or four weeks, probably, to get out the completed booklet, if they still have the letter press matter set up.

Very Truly Yours C. S. Nickerson