HUN NEMAN & BALCH 
Counsellors at Law 
504-507 MASSACHUSETTS BUILDING 
60 STATE STREET 
CARLETON HUNNEMAN 
FRANCIS N- BALCH 
TELAPHONESj— [MAIN 
CABLE ADDRESS, HUNBALCh 
boston, 11th January, 1910. 
Mr. William Brewster, 
145 Brattle Street, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Dear Mr. Brewster: 
1 agree with your letter of January 10th, i.e. , it seems to me 
that if I and others are mistaken about Mr. Forbush it is highly desir¬ 
able that we should be convinced of it, as we are quite willing to be, 
while if we are not mistaken it is well that you and others should know 
it. I did not mean to sneer at Mr. Forbush’s scientific attainments 
about which I know nothing whatever. No outcome could suit roe so well 
as to find I was mistaken in my estimate of him and I believe I could 
bring an absolutely open mind to it. One thing one does learn in law is 
that there are two sides to almost everything. 
Now as a practical matter I scarcely know what to do next. I 
am acutely aware that my informer, or informants, would very much resent 
being dragged into the matter and I shall not feel at liberty to cite 
their names. I must, I think, talk with them again and get the facts 
more accurately into my own mind, always with the danger that they on 
their part may have grown hazy about these proceedings of a year ago 
where undoubtedly no written record exists. After that I suppose the 
thing to do would be to write you a letter stating by way of preamble 
our previous correspondence and your suggestion that it was only fair to 
Mr. Forbush that he should be apprised of the statements current con¬ 
cerning him which I could then briefly summarize. Such a letter,if for- 
