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t e l eg r a ms : ETHYLPORT, CHURTON. Telephone: VI CTORI A 55 20 ETHYL EXPORT CORPORATION I n c o r p o r o ie d in th S f o t e o f D e lo w o r e . U . S . A . w i h lim it e d lia b ilit y . ABFORD HOUSE, VICTORIA LONDON, S.W.I HeadOfdee: 135 EAST AZ<i? STREET NEW YORK,U.S. A 26th October, 1922 Dr. R. A. K ehoe, D ept, of Phy si ol ogy , Col l ege of M edi ci ne, U ni v ersi ty of C i nci nnati , CINCINNATI. Ohio. Dear D r. K ehoe, Many thank s f o r your l e t t e r of October 14th adv i si ng me t h at you have f orw arded to New Y ork the r ep r i n t s which I ask ed f o r . I ex pect t o recei v e these f rom them i n the near f u t u r e. I am v ery gl ad to hear from you al so t h at the p u b l i c ati o n of your book w i l l tak e pl ace sh o r t l y . We l ook f orw ard w i th v ery g r eat i n t er est t o r ecei v i ng t h i s, si nce i t w i l l be of tremendous v al ue to us i n some of the work th at we are attem pti ng to do here at p r esen t. I am sure t h at th e p u b l i c ati o n of t h i s book must have i nv ol v ed an immense amount of work and tak en up a v ery g r eat d eal of y our ti m e. As you say , how ever, the r esu l t w i l l undoubtedl y j u st i f y the e f f o r t . We have made no f u r t h er headway up to the pr esent w i th our Swiss f r i en d s, and the m atter at the p r esen t ti me i s bei ng consi dered by one or two U ni v ersi ty Pr o f esso r s i n the country . I do not know how f a r t h e i r i nf orm ati on w i l l hel p us si nce t o me i t appears to be q u i te c l ear t h at the onl y hope we have of obtai ni ng a sat i sf ac t o r y r e su l t i n t h i s country i s t o conv i nce one Pr o f esso r Zangger, of whom I th i n k you have heard b ef o r e. T hi s i s not goi ng t o be an easy m atter si nce Pr o f esso r Z angger, as you know, publ i shed a v ery unf or tunate document,f rom our p o i n t of v i ew ,on the su b j ect as l ong ago as 1926, and a t the pr esent ti me he does not seem at a l l di sposed t o r e t r a c t t h i s i n p u b l i c . T hi s i s somethi ng, how ever, t h at t o sh al l have to achi ev e bef ore we can hope t o g et the ban removed by the Sw i ss A u t h o r i t i es. Prospects f o r st ar t i n g some sm al l busi ness appear t o be a l i t t l e b r i g h t er i n a few of the European c o u n t r i es. T hi s w i l l probabl y s t a r t w i th av i ati o n b usi ness, but t h i s ty pe of busi ness u su al l y gi v es us a sm al l f o o t hol d on which to devel op l a t e r our commerci al b u si n ess. We are hopi ng w i thi n the nex t si x months t o have a f a i r l y wide d i st r i b u t i o n of E thy l av i at i o n gaso l i n e not onl y throughout Europe, but al so through a number of o th er co u n tr i es such as A f ri ca, I n d i a e t c . We have reached no agreement on t h i s as y et, how ever, TO. DATE so the i nf orm ati on i s c o n f i d en t i al . I si n cer el y hope t h at you w i l l pay us a v i s i t sometime i n the near f u tu r e, si nce I would v ery much l i k e t o see you agai n. I hope th at you w i l l be abl e to arrange t h i s p o ssi b l y w i thi n 1he earning y ear . Pl ease gi v e my k i ndest r eg ar d s to Mrs Kehoe and K athl een. W ith a l l b est w i shes to y o u r sel f , I I i ! i KE 0007069