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"I can only guess about the size of Alan Clark's Bibliography but would certainly expect it to be a full size book. Something in excess of 200 pages I would imagine. We would certainly consider publishing it in this form if he would like us to do it."

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"I was pleased to hear of Mr. Clark's reactions to my comments on your bibliography. I realize that there is a great deal of work involved in his project, a great amount of detail."

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"I shall indeed be writing to Guy Logsdon: the information as to what is there will interest me, and be useful to bibliographer Alan Clark (hard at work here, just now- he goes to Cornell next week for study of the collection there)."

Scope and Contents "As to lightning: Florida has the U.S. record for lightning trouble - deaths, fire-producing strikes. The incidence is of great frequency in all the summer and autumn months, thunderstorms expectable every afternoon -...""I liked your paragraph on bibliographoes, and I like it that you have thought of the possibility of your publishing Alan Clark's work. He has a great deal of data assembled, and much material for annotative use from me, and a good collection of my work of his...

Scope and Contents "I have received reply-word from Alan Clark on what I wrote to him as to your thought on the possibility of your caring to publish his bibliography. He was pleased by your interest. In time, there should be correspondence between him and yourself as to this possibility." ..."As I have written, I [shall] be wanting to have at hand for consideration, along with your thought on it, the experimentally suggested title I sent to you a while back for the Majorcan-source...

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"I will send you the material fairly soon, I am sorry you had the extra task of going to the Library to inspect the typescripts - I would have sent them at call, of course. I habe not yet got to specific comment on the individual pieces. I have my first general-writing part of the introduction written, in which I generalize on the nature of things as involving what the curiosity of my coming into posession of these mss. involves."

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"Word came to me yesterday from you apprising me of the safe travel of the last two packages of ms. material, and communicating to me your idea of the askable price for all the material you have in hand: I thank you for these combined attentions. I trust your estimates entirely.---With all the material, I should like the privilege of advance knowledge of the possible quarters you have in mind."

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"Thank you for writing in prompt response. The Alan Clark text matter I will put to rest. This will be his personal memento - and never sold. You have miscomprehended the case as to Cornell. Cornell has not received and will not receive any copy of typescript of either the first or second versions of the book on language."

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"I was hoping for a sign of that material's having come through to you this time, and in intact state. Will you, please, allow yourself to think of that bibliographical material thus - as I shall suggest?"

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"You have yet had from me a proper acknowledgement of the copy of the so thorough coverage of the bibliography project that your letter to Alan Clark was. I was entirely pleased by it, your comments on the problems as envisaged by you, and on the part you saw possible for yourself."