FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO 
PUBLISHERS AND IMPORTERS OF 
BOOKS ON OUTDOOR SPORTS 
CABLE ADDRESS, FORESTRIM, N. Y. 127 FRANKLIN ST. 
New York April 12th, 1910. 
Mr. Ym* Brewster, 
145 Brattle St., 
Cambridge, 
Mae 3. 
Dear Mr* Brewster 
I am greatly obliged to you for your kind letter of April 
11th, even though you do not give me the information about Manly Hardy 
which I need* 
Your knowledge of him is something like mine. I have been 
in correspondence with him at odd times for many years, but, as is so 
often the case, when I try to set down anything about his life, I have 
absolutely no facts to go on* 
I do know something about him but the information has come to 
me in such a way that I cannot use it, and so I tried to see if I could 
get the same information from another source. Your feeling about his 
knowledge of the Maine woods and their inhabitants is mine^ and I have 
the utmost faith in any statement that he may make. 
I need not tell you that I am very much gratified to hear 
the pleasant words that you speak about F0RE8T AND STREAM, and I am 
especially glad at the improvement that you have noticed in the time 
mentioned* About three or four years ago, Mr* Reynolds, who had been 
with ua for many years, had to leave F0RES7 AND STREAM, and I felt some¬ 
what uneasy about the results* I felt obliged to take hold myself and 
perform a lot of the manual labor, so to speak, that I had laid aside 
