EDITORIAL-DEPARTMENT
THE CENTURY-MAGAZINE
UNION-SQUARE-NEW YORK

11 November, 1897.

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Professor O. C. Marsh,
Yale College, New Haven, Conn.

My dear Professor Marsh,

I hope you will keep in mind firmly
our great desire here to have some papers on your western ex-
plorations, and a book on the subject. Can you not begin to
do a little work on it this winter, while the matter is still
fresh in your mind.