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BOSTON 
CHICAGO 
ATLANTA 
DALLAS 
SAN FRANCISCO 
The Macmillan Company 
PUBLISHERS 
64-66 Fifth Avenue 
New York 
March 21, 1921. 
LONDON 
TORONTO 
BOMBAY 
CALCUTTA 
MELBOURNE 
Professor Merritt L. Fernald, 
Harvard University, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Dear Professor Fernald:- 
We have examined with a great deal of 
satisfaction the manuscript and pictures of your EDIBLE WILD 
PLANTS. You certainly have done a tremendous amount of work 
and the result is interesting and valuable. However, a real 
problem, so far as publication is concerned, is presented in 
that the manufacturing costs of the book would be very high 
owing to the numerous pictures. These pictures, as we see it, 
are essential and could not be omitted or materially revised. 
On this score alone we feel that we 'cannot make you a publish¬ 
ing offer and it is with real regret that we write you to this 
effect. 
Sometimes, as you doubtless are aware, 
an author assists in the publication of a book of this sort by 
contributing toward its manufacturing cost. I doubt if you 
would be interested in doing that but if you would the whole 
complexion of the case is altered and I am sure we can get 
together on a publishing program. If, for example, you cared 
to pay for the cost of making the printing plates leaving to 
us the cost of the paper, printing, and binding, I would be 
interested in hearing from you. I do wish that such a proposal 
