Field Notebook: New York, Pennsylvania, Washington District of Columbia 1906 - 1908
Page 89
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regard to this matter as in very instance the Government Printing Office has been communicated with, but are now unable to ascertain the exact status of the account until today when we were informed that payment should be made by your company. According to specifications at the contract on file, the papers of $103.5 in the stores refuse to set with your company. I therefore turn Mr. John Holchuck over to your tender mercies, and have enclose him personally that this will be no trouble in securing the amount which is due the University. Yours Very Truly, Jno. L. Midgaway! At 3:30 showed this letter to one of the Storn firm, a large, heavy, feeper-eyed man. It was evident that he knew all about our bill. He bluffed by looking up the ledger under the heady Joh University Museum when a credit stood to the name for $103.5. While the receipt was being written out he told me that the store