November 16# 1948 
Mr. Dudley Easier 
Publicity Department 
Little# Brown & Company 
34 Beacon Street 
Boston 6, Massachusetts 
Dear Hr. Easier: 
In *eply to your letter of October 26, let me say that BUI Mann's book has been 
his b^k 2** r .lT~ ° rL 80me ° ne Wh ° 50101,8 3111 “ » 011 aa I do to comment 11 on 
like «^lng a bobby-soxer to discourse safcely on Van Johnson. She bar. 
fact that you ask shows that you don't know who Bill Man is. Mo mere publish** 
°°f d " 0,11088 *• ^W 0118 t0 b0 « globe-trotter, a professional naturalist^ a circus- 
Z*? *°T, er, v and ? gourmet who appreciates the delicacy of Bill's baked ' 
beans* People talk about M artists 1 artists 11 and M poets 1 noets » Bin i« W(S i, w . 
ists* naturalist, and probably the only examnle in existence. *Gray-haired professors 
recite legends about him. He ia a legend I The only troable wlShiTtoS ifSt 
^1°-°* r T 1 !? f M1C r " 0t realU * MH 1b already the PenlltauyJfd 
y ™ f ° r the b00k - You and Bill have lost money, for if X hadn't gotten a free 
eopy, 1 d n-ive gone ov>^ and bought one ins tan ter. $o will all the rest of the 
“ j " 1 * 1 ”’ 4 * “■> “■ t ^. 
Hatio2l^itd l 0 f’ y * U 880,3111 Mann 18 th « l>est known person in the 
Rational Capitol, even though a few politicians and diplomats haven't found it out 
GSM:be 
Sincerely# 
George S. Buyers 
professor of Biology 
Curator Zoological Collections 
KPS :mb 
Karl P* Schmidt 
ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE, PUBLICATIONS AND PACKAGES TO 
CHICAGO NATCHAL HISTORY MUSEUM, CHICAGO S, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. 
