Hartford Mch 6/84.
Dear Charley—
This is the best luck I’ve had in 7 years. Get the Prang contract canceled, right away—don’t let him change his mind. You can’t imagine what a horrible 3-months’ job it would have been. I wouldn’t sign the Prang contract again, though it offered me ninety per cent.
Don’t make any mistake—get it canceled & torn up. I won’t even charge him anything for the 5 days I’ve already put on it—& they’re worth several hundred dollars apiece.
When [are] you going up to dig that money out of Osgood? ‸Don’t let him bust on us.‸
Make your 15% on actor’s 65% if it you like—I suppose you know what you are basing it on, & whereas I haven’t any data to work on.
Yrs Truly
S L C
Bless my soul, I meant to make that [dredful] calendar entirely original—every line of it!
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MTBus, 242.
Provenance:
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.
Emendations and textual notes:
dredful • [sic]
