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[States that he is sending Dashiell the first draft of an essay and asks for his criticism. Says he will not be able to write about the scholars and philosophers because Charles Sanders Peirce 's papers ( Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce 5 v. 1931-1934) are not yet available.]
[Says that Maxwell Perkins agrees with him about the manuscript. Suggests that since landscape is such a broad subject and hard to make interesting that material on Charles Gustavus Roebling be included, and the material on Central Park reduced . ]
[ Lewis Mumford discusses rewriting the essay. Thinks he will leave out the section on Charles Eliot and include instead the story of Charles Gustavus Roebling . ]
[Says he has been in Amenia, N. Y. a fortnight during which time he wrote the first draft of the essay which he is sending.]
[Feels that the conclusion of the article needs improvement, and states that he is not buying any more articles until next fall. Discusses The Brown Decades publication date, and an article about it for the October issue.]