Coggiais V*Xlt once or twice t when we were making these 



literary aids 114 Jlo«lc fff people to write these 

 for us* Usually a teacher of English* A book on 

 California civics was written for us by a school 

 superintendent* Im a way, that eauM neareff t# 

 being graft* you mi^ht say* to get a man y/ho was 

 in a position to buy his own book. But if he 

 believed in the bo<% if vo believed in it# it 

 seeioed to be all right* 



0ilb} In other words, a teacher who could influence the 

 ohoiee of a book to be used in his classes would 

 be a )|ood person to approach to write a book, 



Coggins: Yes* that was very common* Charles Mills Oayley 

 wrote Classic Mvthfi or Prim Tales Made Pay * His 

 prestige helped to sell the book* 



Gilbi But you dida*t handle books usually that were 

 written by university professors? 



Coggins: We didn't handle that one. Yes* we had one on 

 geogi^phy by Harold Fairbanks^ who tau^t in the 

 department of Oeography at the tfniversity of 

 California, And Josiah Keep of Mills College 

 wrote a book of West Coast shells for us which bas 

 been a standard book and is still about tkab only 

 book of its kind* 



