Letter from [William B Hardy] to Algernon Aspinall of the West India Committee Has received the sweet potatoes and banana chips -- encloses copy of the letter to [John Barclay] the secretary of the Jamaica Agricultural Society -- will ask one of the mills working for the Wheat Commission to try to grind the chips into flour -- is afraid the question of food from the West Indies [Caribbean] has been defeated by the rise there in local food prices. 9 May 1917