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12 East 234 Street. Madison Square.
New York.

Jan 8/80

My dear Sir:

If I know
anything about books,
through my own
experience and that
of other publishers,
experts can't write
books on their specialties
for unformed
or untrained readers.
Psychological laws
would tend to indicate

the probabilities of it &
experience proves it so
thoroughly that if psychological
laws dont
point toward it, they
need revision.

I had no idea that
a bookmaker's work with
the larger books would be
confined to abridgment.
Re-arrangement seemed
to be almost a matter of course.

Of the authors of books
published, Prof Pa[c?]kard
objects to my suggestion
because he has long
contemplated making a