Sinclair writes he has considered and accepted almost all of Kress's revisions to his World's End manuscript, the first book in the Lanny Budd series. He offers to help Kress find work in the literary field in New York City, suggesting he should seek out his "intimate friend" Fulton Oursler, "editor of Liberty and general manager of all the Macfadden publications." Oursler was an American journalist, playwright, author, and editor. He would go on to become the senior editor at Reader's Digest in 1944.