Concur: Chief Judge Fuld and Judges Bubke, Scileppi, ' Bergan, Breitel, Jasen and Gibson.

The letter, dated November 16, 1967, sent by the plaintiff to the defendant general contractor — in which it announced that “ [w]e are therefore proceeding with a lien against [the] job ” —may not be regarded as the notice which section 137 of the State Finance Law requires as a condition precedent to an action on the general contractor’s payment bond by a person who furnishes materials to a subcontractor. We pass on no other question.