Letters Received to H.H. Barker, March 11, 1929

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY March 11, 1929 MAR 181929 Mr. H. H. Barker, Vice-President United States Radium Corporation 535 Pearl Street New York My dear Barker: I received this morning your special delivery letter, in fact, two letters and in reply let me say that I shall arrange to be in Newark on Sunday, March 17th to conduct the electrosconic test on Mrs. Canfield. My plan is to leave Columbia at four o'clock on Firday after- noon and then take the midnight train on the Pennsylvania which will get me into Newark early Sunday morning. I think the train is due in Newark about seven o' clock. Now this hour is altogether too early arising hour on Sunday morning for a New Yorker living in the suburbs, so let me suggest that you have your Saturday evening frolic and let me get my breakfast at the Trent Hotel where you could meet me between eight and nine o'clock. I am sure that this will be a more convenient arrangement for you than trying to meet me so early in the morning. I am pleased to hear that you are planning to standardize the emanitation electroscopes, and by leaving the instruments in Berry's office on Saturday, why, the instruments would have the normal, natural drift. I hone that we can arrange our time to permit making a reading of the natural drift instruments before the hour of ten 0' clock. I am glad to hear that at least one of the girls who is married is rearing a family of children. Now the next question is, are the children radioactive? Since I have not yet received any money from either the U. S. Government or the lawyers, my balance in the bank is not very flush. I hope you will be kind enough to furnish me with a little money when I reach Newark, say $50, so that I will not get stranded in the East. We have just received some quartz fibers which were ordered about a month ago. Our next problem will be to get these mounted in the Wulf electro- scope. This will be our first attempt at producing quartz fiber instruments. I