Here are some comments on last week's E-Sylum.

On Charles Enders, I have in my library a Ender's Price List and Catalog of Rare Electrotypes, Coins and Medals Four pages, undated, but probably the 1880s. I have owned this for many years.

On the paper money turned in to the Treasury by the Green estate, I agree 100% with your comments. From what I have read of Hetty Green, any paper money she had would be put to work, either as an investment, or at least earning interest. Surely those notes wire purchased by her son Ned.

On the post on J L Riddell, I have the book Long Ride in Texas, which as was mentioned, has interesting biographical information on Riddell.

eBay will not permit the sale of the banknotes of Cuba, North Korea, and one or two other countries on their web site, but will permit the sale of unmarked replicas of circulating and/or legal-tender banknotes of most countries in contravention of U.S. and international laws. How come they permit this to continue? The sale of these replicas poses a much greater risk of harm than the occasional sale of a few Cuban banknotes among collectors.

There is more to the destruction of the Green paper money than burning duplicates. In the 1950s I did some investigation and was told that a large number of notes were housed in cellulose acetate holders and had crumbled to pieces. The Treasury routinely redeemed damaged notes, and these notes were identified and face value paid.

Yes, some of the Green notes were damaged by the nitrate holders. Others that Newman bought were ruined by the holders. I've never seen a list of the lost.

Regarding the debate to kill the $100 bill -- I remember reading about this same plan, for the same reason (organized crime), in the 1960's. As currency collectors know, the U.S. used to have in ordinary circulation notes in denominations of $500 $1000 $5000 and $10,00. They stopped making them in the 1940's and began withdrawing them from circulation in the 1960's.

I have never heard any explanation why this was done. Was it to make organized crime more difficult? I remember there was a congressional investigation into organized crime in the late 1950's or early 1960's, which was televised. J. Edgar Hoover told Congress on camera and under oath that there was no such thing as the mafia -- even though he had been secretly making deals with them since he first took over the FBI. Why were these high denomination bills being eliminated as early as the 1940's and withdrawn in the 1960's?

That idea that our 100 dollar bill leads toward corruption is ridiculous. A 500 euro note is the same as a 500 dollar note, we stopped printing those over 50 years ago.

I would highly recommend Sam Ellenport of Belmont, Mass. He does only leather bindings and restorations and has done several for me. I went to Sam when Maureen Grace went to England and did not return; of course, Alan Grace did all of my bindings for years until his tragic death. Sam's email is sam@chagfordinc.com.

President Robert Gabriel has made some 2016 IOWMC woods bringing back the “Brothers of the Brush” design. The woods are 1½” diameter ink printed. The Brothers of the Brush was popular years back. They are free to club members who send either a small donation for the club and/or postage of $2.50 to cover the shipping of a handful in a 000 bubble mailer. Great to keep a couple and pass out a few to promote IOWMC. The wood showcases our new email address IOWMC@yahoo.com. Please send inquires to Bob Gabriel – 28 Hatch Street – Nashua, NH 03060-5856.

E-Sylum readers who want to read John Leonard Riddell's science fiction yarn, "Orrin Lindsay's plan of aerial navigation," can find it online at Google Books. Interestingly, that edition may be an unauthorized "bootleg." Google Books scanned theirs from the University of Michigan Library. That edition was printed by John C. Noble's Book and Job Printing Office, Louisville, in 1847. However, Riddell himself arranged for the printing with Rea's Power Press Office of New Orleans, the city where he lived and worked.

Another version can be found at Forgotten Futures, a project website of Marcus L. Rowland. Find that at http://www.forgottenfutures.co.uk/lindsay/moon.htm. Roland re-set the work for HTML presentation. He says that he proofread his against another version from the July 2009 issue of "Science Fiction Studies" (Vol. 36, No. 108, Part 2). SFS is at DePauw University (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/). They sell back issues for $20. (Nothing goes online until the hardcopies are sold out.)

Also, antiquarian Lloyd W. Currey has an original New Orleans edition for sale for $3750.

If I might offer a metric definition of the highly useful term "crapload," let it be one one-trillionth of all the political commercials run in America between 12:01 A.M. on Jan. 1, 2015 and 11:59 P.M. on Nov. 8, 2016.