The following is feedback from Michael: Thanks, David,for setting the “discovery” record straight. I specifically recall finding that letter in the Sparks collection when I went out to Albuquerque to review these materials with his son after his death, funded by the Museum. In fact I can probably dig up (probably handwritten) notes I made and passed along at the time, urging the Museum to accept these documents, along with a number of important artifacts. I don’t however recall the fortune from Ming’s, but there was a similar one in the Shockley collection at Stanford, saying “For better luck you have to wait until winter.” The Shockleys were pack rats, an archivists’ and historian’s dream. And they loved to dine at Ming’s.