4 
Now,  whether  or  not  these  issues  that  I 
have  named  would  he  useful  to  us  all  depends 
on  Dr.  Thayer's  approval  of  my  plan  for  re¬ 
binding  so  as  to  have  two  copies  of  each  vol¬ 
ume  ,  one  for  the  safe  and  one  for  the  Vindex 
Room.  He  may  feel  that  these  early  numbers 
are  of  such  value  that  they  should  be  kept 
as  they  are  in  the  safe.  In  that  case, 
these  issues  that  I  have  listed  would  not 
be  missed  so  much.  In  case  he  does  approve  of 
my  plan,  however,  any :  copies  that  you  might 
wish  to  spare  would  be  of  great  value.  It 
might  be  well  then  to  let  the  matter  rest 
until  after  Dr.  Thayer's  return,  when  I  can 
write  you  more  definitely.  In  any  case, 
I  should  not  wish  to  ask  you  to  give  up  the 
one  copy  of  Volume  I,  Number  1  that  you  have, 
or  Volume  III,  Number  5,  which  you  mention 
on  account  of  its  particular  association. 
And  it  might  be  that  you  would  prefer  to 
hold  all  the  copies  for  the  present,  in  view 
oi  the  fact  that  we  have  at  least  one  copy 
of  every  issue  of  the  first  ten  years.  We 
do  not  wish  to  impose  on  your  generosity. 
If,  however,  you  were  at  any  time  thinking 
of  destroying  any  of  the  issues  you  have, 
we  should  be  glad  instead  to  have  them  for 
our  permanent  files. 
It  was  a  great  pleasure  to  see  you  here, 
and  now  that  you  are  once  more  acquainted 
with  us,  I  hope  that  you  can  drop  in  fre¬ 
quently  .  And  when  I  can,  I  should  be  very 
