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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