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Thank you for keping me informed of the motion picture situation. The motion picture industry is now in the doldrums, and I am not at all surprised to hear that the Micheaux Film Corporation1 has asked for an extension.2 I am not counting my chickens before they are hatched, but hope that these two eggs will eventually incubate.3
Very truly yours, Manager, Syndicate Bureau. WBP/G 1000Correspondent: 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.