ffiljn (Ontario 
tt-laeluiiytmt, 0. (£. 
January 85,1919*. 
Dear* Will; 
I expect now to be able to send you the mss.to read the first of next w 
week when the final copy will be made.You need be in no particular haste to 
return it unless indeed .you should find errors whioh should be corrected.In 
that oaae you might; write me as soon as you can as I intend bo send the thing 
to California as soon as possible.If Crinnell is going to out the mss.down 
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to a third of its present size he has something of a job before him assuming 
that he desires to retain some few fasts of interest beside mere dates.Howev¬ 
er it cannot be printed in the Condor in its present shape as it would simply 
swamp the journal.So I shall let him solve the problem as he can.My job is ove; 
now that it is written.As you say it may read batter to others than to me who 
as usual am heartily siek of the theme.I never wrote anything yet that I did n 
not get heartily tired of before it wa3 ready for the press.Please don't hesit 
tae*to criticise it frankly.There are some pages that might perhaps be spared 
as wel as nob,as about the mule,the camp cook,and the packers.This seemed to 
me to lighten up the matter,and to be new to most people. 
I return the good Dootor's screeds,which are much like him.Your inter¬ 
pretation may be correct.1 doubt if he was as enthusiastic about the trip as 
his words might seem to imply,and i should not wonder if he would have been 
well satisfied if at the last moment something had oorae up to cause a ohange o 
of progr amine• However, all the same he will have a good time and the trip will 
no doubt be a big success.Sibgham is a generous ohap,and a fine fellow so faa 
as I know him.What sort of a comrade he would make I do not know,having been 
with him very little.He is a big impr 
ovement on his partner, and I have never 
