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I am sorry to have to report that Micheaux Film Corporation2 has failed to remit for its two notes of $100.00 each, due December 15, 1921, and January 15, 1922,3 for motion picture rights in my "The House Behind the Cedars."4 They make an explanation which sounds reasonable, and asked that I give them until April /15th to make a remittance, and I am writing them today consenting to this request.5 I shall remit promptly your proportion of whatever I get, when I get it.6
Correspondent: William Brace Pratt (1886–1961) was a White Bostonian who graduated from Yale in 1906. He worked for Houghton Mifflin's Special Sales department from 1907 to 1929; as the manager of the syndicate bureau, he frequently correspondended with Chesnutt about the film rights to his works in the 1920s.