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Enclosed please find my check for $26.06, being twenty-five per cent. of amount collected1 from Micheaux Film Corporation2 for their note due December 15, 1921, for $100 and interest3 on film rights for "The House Behind the Cedars."4
The Micheaux people have promised to pay the note due January 15th on June 1st.5 When they remit I will remit to you.6
Yours very truly, CWC/FLCorrespondent: 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.