Oct 25/81.
Dear Charley—
How did you know where to look for Hamersley? Did he leave word at your Office?
He tells me you & Mr. Whitford are to send an expert to examine the machine, & that if the report is fully favorable the proposed business can be engineered.
Of course the expert’s report will be thoroughly favorable; it certainly will be, if he is an old practical typesetter (like myself,) for he will perceive the value of the [thing.
Hamersley] said that the foreman of the Herald composing rooms was here last Saturday to examine the machine; was satisfied with it, & said he should advise the Herald to order $150,000 worth (30 machines.) I do not wish to ⟦More than necessary, I should think, for 30 of them would do the work of 150 men.⟧ I mean
However, my object now in writing, is to say, if you should carry Hamersley’s project through, telegraph me when it is actually done, for I shall want to scrape up some money & buy another block of this stock, here, if I can get it. I reckon it will take about a hundred thousand machines to supply the world, & I judge the world has got to buy them—it can’t well be helped.
How did you find out where Hamersley was?
And how is your brass?
Ys Truly
S L C
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MTBus, 172–73.
Provenance:
See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.
Emendations and textual notes:
thing. [¶] Hamersley • ~.— | [¶] ~
