THE COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
THE CITY COLLEGE--DEPARTMENT OF HYGIENE
CONVENT AVENUE AND 138TH STREET

[Wed.] January 14, 1945

Dear Helen:

    Your letter appeared in the nature of a crossing of thoughts by some coincidence or telepathy if one is inclined to give credence to the existence of telepathic thought waves. I visited Mr. McDowell at Greenberg publisher's on Friday and received the materials from your brother's manuscripts and was today debating with myself whether to mail them to you in Boston or wait until I heard from you. I had called your former address in N.Y. and they gave me a Boston address where I could reach you.

   Mr. McDowell's comments on the manuscripts were these. Both of them he thought were rather scholarly and thus would not lend themselves to publication for popular sale. He suggested that you have some one or more of the outstanding scholars in the the fields of philology and anthropology respectively read both manuscripts for the purpose of passing on their merits and suggesting possible agencies for publication. His feeling was that most commercial publishers would have the same reaction as he had and that you would do best through some educational agency or publication through a scholarly grant. In the field of philology he suggested Margaret Schlauch at N.Y.U. as a likely person for the language manuscript and for the anthropology he suggested you contact the The Museum of Natural History authorities.

           My sister came in to borrow my typewriter so I'll finish in ink. I'll be looking forward to seeing you again upon your return to New York and will be much interested to gain any additional knowledge you may have about Bill. I have not as yet gone further in trying to contact any additional friends of Bill's and will let that wait and then I will set myself to a specific project on the subject. Please contact me when you get to N.Y.

Sincerely,

Abe Sperling

P.S. We are awaiting our new arrival any hour now.