Translations:CP 03011/16/en
- ↑ This relates to stocks in the steel manufacturing company United States Steel Corporation, on which Proust wanted to seek Hauser's opinion in his aforementioned letter (see note 1 above). In 1912 Proust and Hauser had already had some discussions concerning a possible purchase these stocks with high speculative potential, which the banker, without furnishing any explanations on the subject, had advised him against. (See CP 02388, CP 02389, CP 02390; Kolb, XI, no. 124, no. 125, no. 126) [PK, FL]