0ilbt Vhat would you haT« bought of Mark 7wain» wliose 

 books are full of slangt 



Coggins; I think Prlnca and the Pauper r«a through 



St# Hi Choi as ^ but Mark 'Twain wail probably not a 

 favorite of the ehuroh publication people, 



0ilbs You wouldn't think of him as being for ehildron? 



Cogginat For older children^ but it wouldn't have passed* •• 



Gilb{ It wouldn't have passed your editorial policy? 



Cogginst Xhe oonpany polioy« anyhov» It wouldn't bav« 

 passed the group that wa ware workinig with and 

 selling to, I 'a not familiar enough now with 

 Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn to know If thay 

 were entirely proper. They weren't, were they? 



Oilbt lo^ X wouldn't say so, 



Cogginat Well, these had to be prepare I rea»iBbarf I was 

 talking not yerj long ago to Oscar Lewis and he 

 used to write for the Presbyterian Board and we 

 ware discussing the taboos of that time, 



Oilb: And why did they have so much influence over you? 



Cogginst Because they were big buyers of books, 



0ilbt Tou were Just editor of the magazine » but I guess 

 your policy would be influenced by,,, 



Cogginst By business, by what we could sell later. In 

 other worda, betwaan our booka and our magazine 



