SMITH-GRIEVES COMPANY, PRINTERS _
WESTERN ENVELOPE MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Seventeenth and Washington Streets
ce KANSAS CITY, MO.

PRESIDENT
April 30th, 1940.

Dr. Forrest €. Allen,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Phog:

Your letter of the 24th was certainly a distinct surprise
to us. Considering our contacts with you before printing
these programs, we never for one minute thought that there
was going to be the slightest difficulty in our receiving
payment for our work.

You are familiar, I believe, with the shortness of time we
were given to produce these programs. It was really hand-
led under terrifie pressure.

We understood that you were well pleased with our perfor-
mance and our billing on this job we consider to be fair
and entirely in line with the amount of work done.

We delivered approximately 7500 programs - 2500 on the 22nd,
2615 on the 23rd and 8375 on the 30th. There were 4-2/3
pages of advertising in these programs. You say that the
programs were all sold and with this and the advertising
revenue - after the payment of commission - there certainly
should be more than enough to take care of our bill.

Since receiving your letter, I have been trying to contact
George Bowles - left several calls for him, but as yet have
not been able to reach him.

I have to leave town tonight for the balance of this week.
My brother Earl will make every effort to see George before
this week is over. Certainly I want to get together with
you and get this bill pald - so I will get in touch with
you the first of this coming week.

H4@rold Smith