OiXbt So tbios*« wa9 a eonsiderabla &iB«»unt of aMaXl 

 publishing going on all around. 



Coggins: Yes, there's certain things that can be published 

 Xoe&lly* Of ooursa^ the Banor oft -Whitney Con^anj, 

 an offshoot of H. H* Banoroft, could publish law 

 books successfully. Ho Hew York house could 

 publish California law books! The facilities and 

 the market were here. Publishing can serve in 

 certain specialized functions in any state. But 

 where you* re dealing with general publishing for 

 the public as a whole, in New York City you could 

 either make or break a book without going out of 

 town. There would be ^enough readers; 3roa could 

 •ell enough there to insure its success. Here it 

 would take a spread of seven or eight states to 

 do the sane thing. 



Oilbf Bid Whitaker and Ray try to sell to a nationwide 

 Biarket? 



Coggins s Me published a few books that did sell all over the 

 country. We had one book. The Health Index of 

 Children , by Dr. Ernest Bryant Hoag, who taught at 

 Stanford for awhile and later at the University of 

 California. One of the people who contributed a 

 chapter to it was Dr« Lewis Terraan of X. Q. fame. 



