the prefaces to one of his voluiaes he wanted to 

 pay off a lot of grudges to people he didn't like 

 and X talked him out of that* Z remember trying 

 the sane with Theodore Hoosevelt^ but it didn't 

 work* He apparently didn't like James Gordon Bennett 

 and he said something about him that X thought it 

 would be better to leave out^ but he said it was 

 better, when you believed a thing, to say it* 



Qtllht So you let him go ahead? 



Cogginat Oh yes. Anyway I think the author should have the 

 final say* 



Gilb: Did you do muoh of an editorial Job on these books? 

 That is, revise the contents? 



Coggins: No* I wouldn't touch a thing of Joaquin's, for 

 instance, except to read proof* 



Gilb: In all of these books, did you do much revision? 



Coggins J I did do some in The Health Index of Children * its 

 shaping i:ip* I did nake one suggestion which 

 apparently was very helpful* I suggested a 

 diagnostic table in the front to aid teachers in 

 noting ayiqptoms and cheeking them for later 

 reference* It gave the school nurse something to 

 go on* 



