Please hand these in at the Am. Ex. & make complaint inquiry for me. I paid up in full last March (I don’t know but you conveyed the check yourself) & I was to receive full dividend in September—but it appears that some of these shares are still called “half-paid.”

I do seem to be receiving a full dividend—ain’t I? Then why are the shares called “half-paid?” They must have got my check. Dog-gone it I don’t want to have to pay that money again—not if I can help it.

Ah, if Providence had only put it into your head to call for money ten days sooner! I could have sold my Union Pacific at 56—a profit of $3,400. I must sell to-day at 47 or along there. I’m out of luck this year.

You mustn’t feel it necessary to join teams with the Am Pub on Tom Sawyer unless you can make money by it.

Send Raymonds

Hand Raymond’s play to me when I pass through New York—or let one of your men do it if you are away. I can’t do anything to it till I get home. I will then add that speech.

We can’t re-write the play; but Raymond’s ideas are good, & if we had had them in the beginning we could have used them to good advantage.