Hartford, Monday.
Dear Charley—
Mr. Wm. Hamersley, our City Attorney, will call on you at your Engraving office, at 10 o’clock Thursday morning.
He & I are stockholders in the Page Type-Setting Machine. This company wants to let a contract to somebody with $300,000 in his pocket, who can clear $2,000,000 on said contract in four or five years. I said Mr. Whitford, or you & Mr. Whitford between you, could probably find such a man (or men) if it could be made pecuniarily worth your while to do it. Mr. Hamersley will explain the matter to you; & then perhaps both of you had better step over & explain it to Mr. Whitford. It seems to me that it is a thing which might be arranged in New York without much difficulty. It ought to be easier than to make capitalists see money in Kaolatype.
I was sorry to hear of your father’s illness, & hope you left him restored to health.
I had to order ‸new‸ Prince & Pauper stamps from the die-sinkers. The fault was not in the casting, but in the crudeness of the original pattern; the lines were not perfect in shape, the lettering was not shapely. The cutting in Kaolatype was too hurriedly done, I suppose.
It is only a temporary failure; for we can make a nice & sharp & shapely Kaolatype patterns; & we can reproduce them in brass, too. What has been done in brass during your absence? Let me know.
Ys Truly
S L Clemens
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MTBus, 171–72.
Provenance:
See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.
