Sam Merwin, jr, Science Fiction Editor, rejects a story by EFR called They Use a Special Knot, due to "thin” story content; Merwin writes that they would like to purchase EFR's short story Rainbow's End for Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine, and tries to persuade EFR to complete a tax-exemption form; he rejects a story by EFR called Instrument, due to its theme and content being "too editorial”; he tries to persuade EFR to complete tax-exemption forms once again to ease the payment process for EFR's short story MacHinery; Merwin asks if EFR could write something along the lines of his novel Dreadful Sanctuary for Startling Stories; he purchases EFR's novelette First Person Singular, but rejects the short story Hell's Bells as being a "straight fairy tale” and also rejects the short story Boomerang and the novelette The Witness; he invites EFR to write the lead story for Startling Stories or Thrilling Wonder Stories magazines; Merwin also sends payment via Oscar Friend of Otis Kline Associates for the short story Invisible and the novelette It Might Be Loaded [Merwin says they will change the title of the novelette to The Star Watchers].