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17 Thursday - July 1975
198th day - 167 days to come

BB retyped a page of the DARN CLEVER rules. I finished the diagram for FREE FOR ALL.
To Boston Road to get the following repros [reproductions]: DARN CLEVER rules, FREE FOR ALL rules (2 of each set of rules); FOREIGN INTRIGUE - the Travel Board, the Headquarters Board, two cardboard pcs. [pieces] onto which I rubber cemented the other equip't [equipment]; the missing pages from TRI-TACTICS.
The repros were not very good, but with some trimming and inking in was able to make them presentable.
Put the following in separate envelopes and sent them 1st class airmail to Pelican: DARN CLEVER rules. FREE FOR ALL rules. FOREIGN INTRIGUE rules and repros of the equip't - in a clasp envelope.
In looking at the FOREIGN INTRIGUE rules again I discovered that I was incorrect on 7/10. The rules are correct as they are.

Rcd. [received] the following games from Lakeside: ROYAL KISMET, FOUR LETTER WORDS, GALLOPING GHOST, TILT, DOUBLE CROSS.

(cont. from 7/18) [7/18]

Rcd. letter from John Gollon. He sent me rules for ORIENTAL WAR, THE GAME OF, which he first saw mentioned in two books: CHESSMEN (Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1937) and CHESS-EAST AND WEST, PAST AND PRESENT.
He asked me if I had THE GAME OF WAR, patented by Hudson Maxim, and published by Wm. F. Drueke & Co. (I have the patent.)

Rcd. letter from Graeme Levin. Mentioned A. J. Ainscough - (No) and A BOOK OF SILUMATION GAMES and HAGGLE - (Yes).
No news on ORGANISMS.
Mentioned AGOG, Tony Mills, and possible future book.

To Post Office. Sent registered letters with FREE FOR ALL and DARN CLEVER to myself. $1.05 each.
Sent two S.P.I. 1975 catalogs to Walter Luc Haas - air mail - $1.32.

In Mt. Vernon art supply bought three sheets of white "Illustration Board" - 20" x 30" - for 75¢ each and two green pencils for 38¢ each. Got 10% professional discount.

Call from Felicia. When Dick Harris was in he saw INTERSECTION on the wall and said that an inventor named Gold had brought in a game exactly like it to M.B. [Milton Bradley] Felicia asked if I knew Gold. No. Gold, Dick told her, did a game for Parker [Parker Brothers] - THE LOST GOLD OF COYOTE CANYON.
Dick liked the packages of PUSHOVER & TOTALLY but said that INTERSECTION didn't look like it was by the same people. I told Felicia of Ed Schifman's letter on INTERSECTION. She doesn't
(cont. on 7/16)