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WHITiUCER AHD RAT, CALIPORHIA PTTBLISHERS 



011bl And how aid you happen to get yotir Job with 

 Whi taker and U^f 



Cogginas Whi taker aai Bay were a large book and aehool 

 aupply houae* They had handled our books and 

 ^^^ Y^^th magazine* Rather to isy surprise # 

 they remembered oe* X wrote t^eia from Fresno, 

 %^ere I was staying^ 



0ilbt Apparently they nust not have been damaged by the 

 fire, 



Cogginsi They were, Heerly everybody was damaged pretty 

 badly* They were occupying a little corrugated 

 iron plaee en drove Street across froa the City 

 Hall in San Francisco. X arrived in town at 

 night and walked around to aef the place* Their 

 stationery had always pictured the big Bancroft 

 Building where their store had been before the 

 firt« X fay this little holis in the wall and 

 nearly decided not to go in in the morning, 

 (laughter) 



Gilbs I*d like to know about their background. They had 

 bought out... 



Cogginat Tea, they bought out the old H* H« Bancroft Coa^any, 

 faaoua for their l|.7-voliaiie History of California , 



