Dear Miss Addams:
Please don't think, because of the lapse of time since the receipt of your letter, that we are not appreciative. We are most grateful to you indeed for having read Dr. Jacob's memoirs.
We note what you say about editing, but before we could put any work at all into the manuscript, what we have to convince ourselves of first of all is whether there would be a large enough reading public for Dr. Jacob's memoirs here in America to warrant our undertaking the publication of the book or expending any effort upon it. Can you give us any idea with respect to this point? Do you think there would be as many as a thousand people who, if notified of a book of this sort, would wish to purchase it? Or has the book so much social value that an individual or a group of people here would sponsor its publication? We should be most grateful to you if you could advise us on these and similar points.
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