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Framingham,
April 30th, 1920.

Dear Brooks;
Owing to heavy winds we have not been able to get the Avro demonstration machine over to the Muster Fields, but still have hopes that something may be done for tomorrow (May 1st). There is a big parade on in town, and we could carry quite a number of passengers. It makes us feel like the deuce to think that we are not in a position to gather the full 100% instead of 25%, but we must get started, so could not have everything our own way. 

Regarding the Jenny on which we paid a deposit of $600 we feel that is a good buy, and when it arrives and we decide we should rather sell it and not operate we feel that we ought to get from 2500 to 3000 dollars for it. You see we must get a machine up here to persuade people to invest with us. As a matter of fact we have had only two subscriptions paid in, and there are four or five who have promised us, but haven't paid in. We are sure that Rice and Portmore will take some stock, but Doon, Long, and Cole seem to want to straddle the fence, and say neither yes or no. We don't want these fellows to say no so we figure a machine on the ground will clinch these fellows. In order to get the International to loan us a machine on the 75-25% basis we had to buy a machine from them, and took the Jenny because we felt it was a good investment. We quite agreed with