THREE HUNDRED TWO WEST EIGHTY-SEVENTH STREET

June 4, 1917

My dear Professor Palmer:—

Knowing you to be interested in German literature, I venture to send you, under separate cover, a copy of my edition of Lessing's "Nathan the Wise", the Introduction to which furnishes much material hitherto altogether unknown or only superficially touched upon by previous writers. I have received a very appreciative letter from Professor Francke of Harvard and would be pleased to have your opinion of the book, upon perusal. Would it be a presumption on my part to ask you to write a few paragraphs for the Yale Review, which I consider the most representative literary periodical in this country? I should be proud to have you notice my book in its columns, and, if you can see your way clear to granting my request, I would appreciate it.