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June 15th,1927.
Dr. Herbert N. McCoy,
1623 Hyde Park Blvd.,
Chicago, Ill.
Dear Doctor McCoy:
We were much pleased to receive your card from Panama,
and hope that your trip was a most enjoyable one.
We are now in a position to use some of the mesothorium
which you have on hand, and suggest that you send along at your earliest
convenience, one of the tubes of lot #43. If it would be any special
accommodation you might send along the complete lot, which we understand
runs from 210 to 222 milligrams. According to our records this was
sealed in February 1926, and of course has not run the two year period for
maximum radio-activity. In view of this and since we will be obliged to
use this at once without waiting for proper aging, we wonder if you would
not be willing to make allowance for the lack of aging in the price.
We have been paying you $37.60 per milligram for two year old stuff based
on measurements 40 days after sealing, which would mean that a correspond-
ing price for this should be approximately $33.50 per milligram.
We should like your reactions on this matter, but in the
meantime you may send along the mesothorium at your earliest convenience.
We are in a position to send you a check in payment upon
receipt of the material and the invoice.
Trusting this finds both you and Mrs. Mc0oy in good
health, we are
Very truly yours,
President.
CBLee:RH
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