31 October 1884 • 2nd of 2 (MS: NPV, UCCL 02996)
I have referred the enclosed people to you & told them that any arrangement made with you would be satisfactory to me & would also bind me. When you come to look into their project, make a contract with them if you like the look of it.

I’ve got (for 3 months) the refusal of a half interest in a patent for keeping children from kicking the clothes off or rolling out of bed; & the only fault it has is that it is too cheap—90 cents to $1.15. We use it all the time, now, on three beds, & it works all right. But I have invented a more expensive & more convenient one, & presently when I see you we will talk about it. Mine is not easily infringed; but any man can make the other thing for himself.
MS, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MTBus, 279–80.
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