tbd printer^ and do everjthlng that needed iMI^Jli 

 d ocie • 



011bt 7ou told mB that you^d discovered L* K. }k>ntgaBBevj§ 



Gogginst VeH^ $i t dida^t ilLseoTer ber at l«a9t I published 

 one of her earlleat stories , "In Quest of a Story*** 

 I reinember ^le nianuseript e^ie in frcm Canada* 

 Tha vhole sdrenture was about ^tting td the 

 library to borrow a book in snowbound winter* 

 I forget Just what the adTsnture was but it was 

 anottgh to malta a story* 



dilbt Did the Penn Publishing Company publish 

 Anne of &reen Gables ? 



Coggins: No* There were a lot of stories like that that 

 went through end a lot of the writers never did 

 publish anything else* Ve didn^t think of 

 following all our short story leads* A graat 

 many of them had published and some of them we 

 published later* 



Zn 1906 a young man going to college sent in 

 a poem which I accepted* It was called **The Wash 

 Tub Sea*^ Forty^nins years later X was looking 

 over an old file of Youth and came across this 

 little poem» which I remembered, and I was 

 astonished to see the author* s naxae— Sinclair Lewis* 



