Macmillan indicates that their copy of the contract for Newer Ideals for Peace stipulates that payment will be made on publication of the manuscript, not submission, and that they are ready to publish it whenever Addams is ready.
Brett notes that Newer Ideals of Peace can be published as early as December 20, but that they think it should be held to January; he encloses her advance check.
These statements detail the financial compensations Addams will receive from Macmillan Company for the publication of Democracy and Social Ethics and Newer Ideals of Peace.
Brett apologizes on some late delivery of Addams' new book, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets and discusses a plan for publication of her new book and the printing of some of that book's material in The American Magazine.
Brett writes Addams to propose the idea of selling discounted copies of Twenty Years at Hull House through the Chautauqua Society. He also proposes a new book idea.
Brett writes Addams that he is happy Macmillan will publish A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil soon promises her that the company will use a union shop for binding.
