Metayer agrees with Brownson in regard to their Columbus letter. He is going to write to Mr. Curtis. He thanks Brownson for the information concerning deposits in this country. He is enclosing a letter of a former depositor. He mentions a package which has disappeared and about which there seems to be considerable mystery. Sam Barlow and Mr. Gunther had addresses of his former depositors and through them they have secure copies of the famous letter which Barlow sold very easily. Barlow had written that Rockwood had asked to make a negative which was to be immediately destroyed. Harisse was well aware of what was going on. Metayer found a lithograph print of his autograph in a book in a book store. Thus far this document has been for him a source of trouble. There seems to be a conspiracy against it. Why all the fuss about a piece of parchment which they repeat has no value and is only a modern copy although a chemist has declared just the opposite? In Paris and New York there are some who wish to get clear of a compromising investigation. In New York there is fear of an investigation about the origin of the famous copies in Barlow's boxes. He has long been convinced as Brown is that they have the seal of the autographed manuscript of Columbus and that Tarducci wrote the truth about the second package sent to France. Someone has made off with it. When and where? But they will know in time in spite of the bravado of Harisse whom Guichainville has told off. He has perhaps made an enemy but he will not stop his investigations. He keeps sending out Brownson's prospectus and recommends his book in his letters. :: III-3-d A.L.S. French 6pp. 8vo.