The Cornhill Company, Publishers

69 Cornhill, Boston

To the Editor and Business Manager.

Sept. 12, 1917.

DEAR SIRS:---We are publishing with our Fall List several books by distinguished colored authors, among them "Fifty Years and other Poems" by James W. Johnson, and a book of poems by a new poet, whose work such critics as William Stanley Braithwaite and Professor James Holly Hanford of the University of North Carolina say rivals that of Dunbar.

We would appreciate receiving copies of your paper for our files, your advertising rates and circulation, and also to learn if you make a practice of reviewing books.

Thanking you for the courtesy of this information, we are,

Very truly yours,

THE CORNHILL COMPANY