Alfred R. McIntyre,president 
Arthur H. Thornhill,vice president 
D. Angus Cameron,vice president 
Stanley Salmen, secretary 
James W. Sherman,treasurer 
LITTLE, BROWN 5c COMPANY 
PUBLISHERS 
3-4 BEACON STREET, BOSTON 6 
November 10* 1948 
Dear Bill: 
There isn s t any way to tell how your book is going to go yet 
except for the few straws in the wind that your friends and 
those who happen to have seen copies have shown us* So far 
we have sold just about 2,GQQ copies, but we have had good 
letters from John Kieran, Joseph Wharton Lippincott and 
Belle Benchley, all of whom promise to spread the good word, 
and a letter from Roger Conant at the Philadelphia Zoological 
Garden, who says he will review it in the next issue of 
Fauna * You undoubtedly know that The Scientific Monthly is 
going to review the book* The only newspaper review we have 
had so far is one from Richmond, where they broke the publica¬ 
tion date, but it ended up with a very interesting quotations 
ff And there are passages that will sometimes make the layman* 
reader think seriously of the phrase in the very old litany: 
f From ... long legged beasties and all things that go boomp 
in the night, good Lord, deliver us f . M 
In another ten days we will have a better idea of what is 
going to happen, and in three weeks we will know the story 
pretty well* 1 haven f t said anything about Washington pub¬ 
licity because I know you know about it* 
We think often of you both* We were perfectly delighted with 
Dr. Campbell. Since his plans are indefinite I didn f t try to 
pin hj m down to a book, but I do hope he will put himself on 
paper one of these days and send it our way* 
Best wishes, 
Dr. William M. Mann 
2801 Adams Mill Road 
Washington 9, D* C. 
