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[Concerning The Jungleand the planned Helicon Home Colonyat Englewood, New Jersey. ]

[To Upton Sinclair, in French with typed translation.]

[Gives his opinion on the "Warren case," the "Taylor episode," the Coloradokidnapping of labor leaders, etc.]

[Discusses the source of "the Mcnaughton matter" in the Brass Check; mentions "the financial connections of the Bostonnewspapers," and the Saturday Evening Post. ]

[Believes that all information on Ambrose Bierceand George Sterlinghe can offer is found in Mammouart; gives names of persons who might be of help.]

[Sinclair thanks his friend for his suggestions concerning the book Mental Radio, a book describing a series of experiments in telepathy made by Sinclair and his wife, Mary Craig, which features 210 examples of partial and complete successes. He declines to publish anything by another person in the book except for the introduction which is to be done by Duke UniversityProfessor William McDougall, an expert in parapsychology. He goes on to enumerate the cuts and revisions he has made in the manuscript, some at the suggestion of his friend.]

[Says he will send chapters as he proceeds; mentions his radio program in which he answers "pitiful and tragic" letters that come to him from around the world; discusses the publication of World's Endand Marie Antoinette. ]

[Asks him to support Sinclair's nomination for the Nobel Prize for Literature.] (On Sinclair's printed letterhead)

[Thanks him for a letter; says he will not be able to visit King soon.]