goddard. response was very short, but he did send a card back saying dear mr. gothard, thanks we are friendly letter. it is the sort of greeting we appreciate from people like you. yours, hg wells. i also brought out letters between goddard and charles lindbergh. ofy had a great deal correspondence between when they met in 1929 and it is interesting that in one of these letters, charles lindbergh asks gothard's advice on an experiment he's doing. says i'm building a tank which will contain oxygen. i would like to use mineral oil and send them up with the instruments. do you believe there's any danger due to combustion? have you any idea an explosion or rapid combustion would take place? the -- it is sort of fun he's asking for advice. saying ifote him back it was grounded, there would not be a serious danger from static electricity. there are often letters between for thinking goddard reports about his experiment. the correspondence continued until gothard's death. clippingsve newspaper that were kept. esther kept them until the end of her life. the clippings he