Letter from Louis Alber, President of the Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated, to WSC, on a possible lecture tour of the United States, stating that it was impossible to secure bookings for him at a 2,000 dollar fee, and that he was also having difficulties securing bookings for Sir Austen Chamberlain at 1,500 dollars, and Katharine, Duchess of Atholl at 600 dollars, commenting that the recession was growing deeper, and that they had been forced to close their Cleveland office.