It occurs to me that you could have got that information in 24 hours by paying the d Dr Sunday Mercury’s dramatic editor $10 to furnish it to you on a piece of paper. Do it, & let’s hurry along.

But we had decided on this procedure, hadn’t we?

I went to Boston, but I had no “business” to talk, & didn’t talk any. It was a social occasion. I could not have talked about this ignorant & stupid piece of work & kept my temper.