420 West 116th St.,

NEW YORK, Dec 26

My dear Mrs. Ford,

I was so sorry not to be able to get
round on Friday, but kept being delayed in
getting away until I found it too altogether
too late.

I find I have to start off on my tra-
vels somewhat earlier than I had expected, and
shall be leaving here the day after to-morrow.
I shall be back on about Jan 25.

I could manage February 17 for Washing-
ton, if you still think there is a possibility
of a useful meeting there. I have to be in Bos-
ton on the nineteenth, but should be free between
the twelfth and seventeenth Feb. for any private
meeting in Washington - a dinner to which half a
dozen political ~~folk~~ folk might be invited, for
instance.

There may be some delay about the book,
though I hope not much. But some copies of my
English book, which has just appeared, should be
here now in a few days, and I will send you on a
dozen as soon as they do come. These contain the
essential suggestions, though not so up to date
as in the book ~~xxii~~ that will appear on this side.
Still, they will suffice to give any selected half
dozen people an idea of the lines along which we
are working.

Professor Manly Hudson, a friend of mine, will
give a general eye to my affairs when I am away
and will send on to you the copies of the English
book as soon as it arrives. His address is the
Faculty Club, Columbia University, if you should
want to know my whareabouts while I am away.

I enclose a ~~pukataxxix~~ few notes on some
points you were interested in the other night.

ALL THE GOOD WISHES OF THE SEASON TO YOU!

420 West 116th St.,

March 22

NEW YORK CITY,

My dear Mrs. Ford,

It is always good to get at
the youngsters - they will have to
clean up the mess. And its particularly
important therefore to get them to see
the need of thinking about these things
and thinking freely. They can't and won't
do that if they are afraid of heresy -
political heresy.

I find my pamphlet "Why Free-
dom Matters" does stir their cerebra-
tion on this point. So it has struck me
that it would help the young heretics
of the universities to get it - and
encourage them.

The I ter-Collegiate Socialist
Socieity has promised that if two hundred
copies of the pamphlet are sent to them
they will see that every Socialist
"Chapter" inx wherever one exists in the
American universities, will get a copy,
or two.

If you are really disposed to do
this would you mind writing to the pub-
lisher of the pamphlet - William Bross
Lloyd, Room 1309 Tribune Building, Chicago
111., the best terms he could make you for
two hundred copies (the retail price is
fifteen cents each) and telling him to
send them to the InterCollegiate Society,
70 Fifth Avenue, New York; and would you
instruct them to send two copies to
each klapxx "Chapter" and to hold the
remainder for me. I will send them some