HALCYON STATION LABOUR OFFICE — Inquiry as to Crewmember Welfare (Form L-7)
Filed deck 3, day 87, winter 2189. Original retained at intake; carbon returned to inquirer with disposition stamp.
Inquirer: A. Mensah, Censor's Office, deck 7.
Relation to subject: cousin.
Subject: A. Bar-Sela, cook.
Last known posting: Marigold (freight courier), run 88-W, Halcyon → Tethys, departure day 1, winter 2189.
Reason for inquiry: No correspondence received in fourteen weeks. No return notice from receiving station beyond not on roster.
The carbon is returned day 92, winter, stamped at the foot L-7 ISSUING OFFICER — DECK 3 and signed E. Thoreau. In the disposition field, in a different ink:
No such inquiry can be processed. The named run is not currently recognized on the Office's manifest for the present quarter. The named crewmember does not appear on any roster filed with this Office for the present quarter. The Office is unable to advise as to the reason a posting that issued from this counter has since been removed from the Office's records, that question being not in the Office's gift. Please consult the operator of record. — E. Thoreau, day 92.
On the reverse, in pencil, in Mensah's hand:
the run is not currently recognized.
deck 3 issued the posting. I checked the day-1 outgoing-crew list myself before I came down. The list is now seven names. She was the eighth.
I did not put the relation right because if I had they would not have processed it. Madam B. has not put the relation at all because she will not give them the satisfaction of the form. Between the two of us we have not made an honest paper.
The carbon is folded twice and filed in the bottom drawer of the censor's clerk's desk, deck 7, with sheets 1–3 (drawer, Mensah, A.) and the Vasquez slip.