I see part of your case, but not all of it. It is a simple matter to inform me once a week, what sum of money Pond has paid that week. That was to have been done.

There is another item which you took down in writing—2 or 3 times I should say—& now you ask for instructions (in that & in a similar matter) as if no instructions had ever been given at all. It suggests that the list I have offered you is completer than your own.

The weekly report suggested by me would not cost you two minutes. There would seldom be anything to report except the fact that there was nothing to report—& that wd be sufficient; I don’t usually want either details or explanations.

The Am. Pub. Co did a big holiday trade. It would take Osgood 30 years to sell that many books.

I am glad to get the explanation of that Rice matter at last. Bromfield is an idiot, & Rice—well, Rice seems to have acted very much like a rascal.

When is Osgood going to report?

Damn the bed-clamp, I won’t bother with it till I get home.