I can see no objection to your arranging with Mr. Micheaux for both the motion picture rights of "THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS" and the serial rights for one newspaper at $700. This is $200 better than the previous figure, and I hope you will be able to close with him at this price when you are in Chicago. If you sell the serial rights for this book and your others to the Chicago Defender, we will leave you a free hand. The Defender is a weekly with a circulation of 16,000. Mr. Robert S. Abbott is the editor. The price for newspaper serial rights in Chicago varies according to the special appeal of the novel, and the circulation of the paper. For the Defender I should think that $200 would be a reasonable price for the Chicago rights. You may, however, find that their treasury is not any too full, and that they would not be able to pay this much. In selling newspaper serials it is largely a matter of dickering, and you can perhaps ascertain in an interview with Mr. Abbott his maximum figure. There is one question which comes up, and that is whether the paper that Mr. Micheaux has in mind for the serial rights of this story would conflict with the Defender. The paper will naturally insist upon having exclusive rights of the story for that city. Any arrangement, however, that you will make will be satisfactory to us, and as you are doing the bulk of the work in placing [2]