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Gilbs How did you happen to get David Staz*r Jordan** 

 books? Did he eome to jrout 



Coggins: We'd had one of his books before, the story of a 



baby 8e&l» It was really a kind of Uncle Tom's Cabin 

 to Mhri^lhi seaiii* It was a plaintive little story 

 of an orphan seal left to perish because its 

 mother had been killed for her far* Then we 

 publiihed iila Cai*» and Culture of lten » 



Oilbs He brought them to you, in other words* He came 

 to yoa» 



Cogginit Care and Gultoire of Men we had alfNiady published 

 before I came and it was destroyed in the fire. 

 I just 3?epubli8hed it* He was willing* 



0ilbt Oh, you went to him? 



Coggins ! I did, but I didn't hare to beoaxise it was already 

 in the works when I eane here* 



dilbs How did you happen to get Joaquin Miller? 



Coggins: Joaquin Miller we had had before, in one volume, 

 but we republished it in six volumss* The old 

 one-volume edition was published way back in 

 the I880»s. 



C^ilbt And you didn't go after people like Jack London 

 or Gertrude Atherton? 



Coggins: Ho, we coxUdn't compete* 



