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December 15, 1938 Mr. Allen B. Crow, President, The Economic Club of Detroit, 6460 Kercheval Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. My dear Mr. Grow* This is to thank you for your letter of December 6th in which you suggest meeting with The Economic Club of Detroit Mon day noon, February 15th, I realise that in your group are many of Detroit's most prominent business and professional men, and I mould regard it as an honor to have an opportunity to meet with then. I have discovered from past experience, however, that it is impossible for me to tell definitely two months in advance whether I shall be able to keep an engagement because circum stances beyond my control so frequently arise that interfere with a schedule prearranged far ahead of tine. I am wondering, there fore, if it would be possible for me to communicate with you some time after the first of the year, when I can tell better whether I would be able to take advantage of your courtesy. I am also wondering whether your group meets later in the week on occasion, inasmuch as Monday would be a rather difficult time for me in any case, and the end of the week is always preferable from my standpoint. I should also be grateful to you if you could advise me as to whether it might be possible to speak off the record, without publicity, for I make a ainlmum of public addresses which have to be carefully prepared and thus consume a great deal of time* I have felt on a few occasions when it has been possible to talk off the record that I could arrange to speak, whereas if it had been necessary to prepare the usual public address, it would have been impossible for me to attempt it. Following your very kind letter, X received one in support thereof from Mr. Buss, Managing Director of the Detroit Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, to whom I am sending a copy Mr* Allen B. Crow (2) December IS, 1958 of this reply. I «ant to express again my appreciation of /our invitation and I hope that I shall be able to take advantage of it. Sincerely yours, M. S. Eccles, Chairman.
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