Letter from the Merry Optical Company to Harry S. Truman

S.N.SHELDEN FRED C.MERRY .MERRY SECRETARY VICE PRES. & TREAS. PRESIDENT C MERRY OPTICAL COMPANY INDIANAPOLIS IND. KANSAS CITY,MO. MANUFACTURERS-JOBBERSTIMPORTERS LOUISVILLE KY. ST.LOUIS MO. HOUSTON TEX MEMPHIS TENN. SAN ANTONIO,TEX. DALLAS TEXAS MERRY BUILDING OKLAHOMA CITY,OKLA. DES MOINES, IOWA BIRMINGHAM, ALA. WICHITA,KANS. KANSAS CrtY:Mo. August 30th, 1918 Lieut. Harry Trueman, ARCHIVES CATIONAL AND RECORDS Exchange Officier, SERVICE 129th Mo . Field Artillery, Camp Doniphan, Okla. Dear Sir: We are enclosing herewith an itemized statement of our account with the exchange, covering items for which we have never received your remittance. In addition to these goods, we sent you merchandise in November amounting to $80 .48 for which we received your check on January 9th. We find that you claim not to have received our first Goggle assortment which we sent you, and upon tracing same find they were delivered to Mr. L. Nichols and C. F. Kennedy, and in your letter of January 25th, you advised that you were returning the case they receivedcas you could not use it. However, the case you returned was not the one charged to you, but was a $16.00 case, credit for which we show on this statement. Will you not therefore kindly check up this statement and let us hear from you promptly Thanking you in advance, we are Yours very truly, MERRY OPTICAL COMPANY RHP:H "KEE LOCK, THE PERFECT SCREWLESS MOUNTING