In this letter Hemingway is offering a story to Gingrich for publication with two possible titles: "The Tradesman's Return / White Man, Black Man, Alphabet Man. / Dear Arnold; Those are the only two titles I have now. Maybe can beat them. The Tradesman's Return is all right I think. Trade is the oldest word for smuggling. How you like it? Maybe you can beat it. [in pencil:] I just finished typing it. [typed:] It's a good story I think. I could get from 2500 to 3500 dollars for it depending where I wanted to sell it. But you said they were going to cut me in so I though I would give you a dividend too. When I heard you were printing 425,000 and I had just started another story and was tired as a son of a bitch from finishing this one, and hadn't slept all night with a bad throat and tried to write a piece this morning and couldn't get going which meant that it would have to be written tomorrow with no chance to revise before mailing... Wasn't that a fantastic story about me taking over the magazine with Jock Whitney. N. Y. is the biggest bullshit dispensary in the world. But I believe Fortune runs a special propaganda department for putting out lies against you guys..." The Tradesman's Return (the alternate title was White Man, Black Man, Alphabet man) was published in Esquire in February 1936, and was later incorporated by Hemingway early chapters of his novel, To Have and Have Not (1937).