Ackerman tells EFR that he has suggested, in his role as Advertising Manager of Fantasy Publishing Company Inc, that they should produce an American edition of EFR's novel Sinister Barrier, preferably with the addition of a short story such as The Pre-e-t, and gives details of what the contract would be; as a talent scout for a publishing company, he hopes to represent EFR's novel Dreadful Sanctuary; says that he is acting as a go-between for Milo Frank, who would like an option to script a film version of EFR's short story Call Him Dead (Ackerman mentions that a previous failed attempt to bring Frank and EFR together had resulted in John Wyndham's, Village of the Damned, being filmed instead); Ackerman says that EFR's story Seeker of Tomorrow, written in collaboration with Les Johnson, has been selected by Damon Knight for an American anthology, and asks about the story's copyright status; he also remarks on EFR's agent Scott Meredith; and he says that he has explained to Judy-Lynn del Rey of Ballantine Books that EFR, and not Maurice Hugi, actually wrote the short story The Mechanical Mice; discusses Dotty Faulkner's hospitalization in Westminster, California; comments on Sentinels from Space.