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Neren 16, 1943
Mr, Wolfgang Lent
277 Kest Sth Street
New Yor City
Deer Mr, Lent:
Iam returning herewith Mrs. Beum's aenuseript. As you
can see, I nede severel corrections in tHe neues end I should
elso Like to suggest the alteration of two deteile. In the first
vlace, the leather attire of the "vaquetros" is only used on the
ferms, to run after the cattle in the’ woods, "@rrescos" or
"cactingas", Therefore, an individual should not ennerr in Belen
Gressed in leether, Ke mey keen his leather het, which is usuelly
worn with other clothes.
In the second vlace, the jJengedns ere embercations destined
only to fisting on the high seas and guided not only by one nerson
but by several exnert fishermen on the const. The ereptest distance
covered by » jengade is usvelly 15 miles. ‘The distance between
Cearé end Belém is ten times os large, In times of draughts in
Ceeré the inhabitants from the interior used to enuigrate to the
cepitel, Fortaleza, from where they went to the 4Suezones with
Snip tickets neid bs the governuent.
The neme Netteo is Italien, he Brezilien nome is Mateus
(formerly Matheus, up to the time vhen the ortogranhy was changed
end simplified). If Silvestre is a count he should be celled
"Conde Silvestre", but thet does not sound truly Bragilien. It
would sound much better if he were celled "Conde de S¥ Silvestre",
"6 nore in the imperial fashion
Count of Seint Silvestre", which is
of Bresil. The nome Mefplde (Sebastiso Hefeldo) sounds too Itelien.
Sebastigo Moreira, is a better Brezilien name, Sebastiso Pereira
sound. equally well. And why should he come from the Guinna? Only
Pr m, sentented in Paris, cane to the french Guiene, to be
secluded there, If he is a local coare cter, it would be better to
hove hin in the Harenh&o jail. “hus is would reed: "Don't you iknow
tnat ne is a fughtive from the SAo Luis @o Maranh&o Jarre
One nore thing: "Ganda! and "Canoe" are the seme, but ras
Beum should stick to one.
Sincerely yours
wmundo Hagelhées
Ru/ bs
fa { One
“UWeteme Ui
1 Stratford Terr.
Cranford, N. J
J March 26, 1943
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Dear Miss Baum: f
f
I greatly appreciate havin nad the opportunity to review
your Chapters on "Washington MV utes" and “American Mural" for
your new book concerning Rubber. I believe that you have hand-
led this material in a very Mnteresting manner. Dr. Sparks,
however, was not too well pleased with me; it seemed apparent
after he read over the story that he felt that I must have talked
ibe much; nevertheless he,s too, considered it to be a good fiction
story.
f
From a strictly os point of view, I would be less
embarrassed if the following changes were made. This, I believe,
could be done without changing your story in substance.
1. The names"BL d and Bob" might be changed to, say Jim, etc.
(Bill and Bob is a rather special trade name in their
associations it would be desirable to change the Bill, if
not the Bop.)
Be Rubbuty1 Aoes not get around the "Butyl" trade mark which
should bé6 avoided. (It still has butyl in the name.) 1
would suggest "Butaprene". This is a name which I made up
and to/the best of my knowledge has never peen used as a
trade /mark for any thing at any time.
3. Indiana University might be changed to the University of
Kentucky, for example. (The towns which you selected In
Indiana as Bili's and Janet's homes are very close to the
Kentucky porderline.)
4, Change Peoria to Pekin. (This is the adjoining town; it
/locates the Regional Laboratory without being so specific
f about it.) Although the name "Peoria" has been made the
/ target of many crude jokes throughout the country, Peoria
/ 48 not looked upon as an out-of-the-way "hick" town by the
people of the middle west. They see it as a city of one
hundred thousand, the second largest in the State of [llinois,
and within commuting distance of Chicago, 6.6. your words
"exile", "drabness" would not be considered apt if you use
foorte: Many of your readers will have come from the Middle
est.
5. In this presentation there are only two characters which are
not ficticious:
a. Roger Adams. Roger Adams is well-known in technical eircles,
but the use of his name would have no significance to the
average reader, and in view of his present position he
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might dislike having his name used. In any case, since the
Department at Illinois is so big, the character in your
story would not have been in a position to have known him
well, 1.e. for a number of years he has been in executive
type activities rather than teaching.
bp. Carobhers. Carothers wads never well known to the public at
Targe. The use of his name as such does not contribute
materially to the credibility of the story. It might be
petter taste to change to something similar, e.g. Carroll.
The change, however, would not be so important provided
you would use the name less frequently or with less emphasis.
The acknowledgement, p.5, lined 1,2 in the Introduction 1s
definitely undesirable. Please believe me sincere in saying that I
appreciate your kindness in giving us recognition here and do not
want you to think me ungrateful for your intentions if I ask that
you do not include our names, the reason peing that it might embarrass
Dr. Sparks professionally. The Company could take the attitude that
the public recognition of the assistance of a member of its staff
might be interpreted to indicate quasisofficial sanction. For any~
one who has not worked for a large Company it may be difficult to
understand how touchy they can be at times on what seems to be small
matters, but all our past eperience has taught us the wisdom of
considerable caution in this regard. As a matter of fact Dr. Sparke
does not admit having collaborated personally at all.
fhe recognition p.2, line 26 is different in that this infor-
mation has already been publically announced by the Company and
we appreciate your including it.
I also suggest the following minor change in wording of
p.3, lines 1-3 to "On the other hand, the story of Bill Clark and
his struggling invention of Butaprene--while suggestive of the
American Chemist's life in general--is fiction."
Please don't think I don't like your story or feel unkindly
towards you because of the story. It is simply a case of changing
those features which point too directly to Dr. Sparks so that
everyone will be sure to recognize the story as fiction and not
think it a put-up job on our part in order to gain some personal end.
I am also enclosing several sheets of further suggestions, etc.
which occurred to me while reading the menuscript. Feel free to
adopt these as you see fit, After all, I make no claim to being
a fiction writer and send my humble apologies at trying to advise
an expert in this field.
I wish you success with your book. Please feel free to con-
sult me about anything with which I might be of assistance.
With best regards,
Introduction
pel line 10,11 in quotation. x should not be capitalized (chemical rules
for writing formulas. )
p.2 line 26 Mr. Robert McKee Thomas
~.3 line 18 Should Jave be spelled Java?
Capitalization
Throughout both chapters note the capitalization. In all books
dealing with chemistry I believe the rule is that:
. Trade names are capitalized
Chemical names are not capitalized.
Just in case the proof-reader for your publisher might not know in all
cases which are trade names and which are chemical names, I am listing
the following names which are used in your book:
Trade names, to be capitalized Chemical names, nob capitalized
Ameripol acrylonitrile
Buna S or N butadiene
Butyl butylenes
Chemi gum isobutylene
Koroseal isoprene
Neoprene styrene
Perbunan
Thiokol
Washington Minutes Ae
plo line 12 It is Alfred Hoyt, not Randolph Hoyt.
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p.59 line 8 Note construction of sentence. i ote.
p.88 line 17 Hydrocarbon
: 22 omit aii like Latex" (A1soprene is not "something like
Latex
p.28 line 25 The word "Ameripol" should be substituted for Koroseal
(Koroseal is not a Buna 5 type of rubber; Ameripol is.
AMERICAN MURAL,
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pel line 24 on upon ? (
- @5 Anventore?
p.2 line 5 We do not say glass"pipes", but "glass tubing!; since you
have already said test tubes, you could substitute the’
word "condensers".
Erlenmeyer is the correct spelling.
p.3 line 15 ‘The more approved name is simply iodide (not "tri-todide")..
pe5 line 19 potassium thiocyanide
potassium chloride unknown (no capitals)
/p.7 line 21 A better order would be: general, inorganic, organic,
physical chemistry. I would omit analytical geography and
instrumental analysis as they are. not. courses widely given
x to an undergraduate in chemistry.
p.8 line 21 Vancouver. This is in Canada. Since this is an American
Mural, would it not be better to move accross the border
in the U.S. to, say Seattle?
25 $275 would be better than $225 here (since he had been
around long enough to have a stenographer).
28 eczema
plo line 2 "at least he never made passes"--some people might resent
this as inaccurate inaamuch,in large companys the rules
ave rather strict; few chemists are of the type anyway.
7 hydrocarbons
8 I believe this man's name is spelled "Teer Mer" (I do not
have the proof at hand).
27 "there is very little prospect of ever changing to another one"
The actual situation is that 1t is fairly easy for a chemist
to change from one large company to another, but practically
Ampossible to do so with any financial advantage to himself. When
the matter of salary comes up, he always finds himself offered
exactly the same salary he is now getting. So-called "Company
ethics” between large companies is that a second company does not
offer an employee of the first more money than the former employer
paid. Since conditions in general and chances for advancement
are much the same in the various companies, and by changing, the
employee not only loses seniority and insurance benefits but must
also pey his own moving expenses, on the whole he loses. in other
words, an employee may change his position due to conflict in
personalities, unfavorable geographic location, etc., but he
cannot "get ahead" that way.
The statement p.11, line 3 that "you won't get another job
if you leave a company of your own free will" is definitely untrue
and many chemists, as well as-the American Chemical Society, would
page
page
page
page
p.16
p.17
p.18
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protest such a statement if it ever received any particular notice.
A chemist can change his position from one large company to another,
but it i9 very unlikely that he can gain anything from it; hence
he does not do it ordinarily.
Gongider the above explanation also with regard to p.27, line 2.
I would stop this sentence after "later". If you desire to throw
special emphasis here, do so by telling how all Bill's various well-
meaning friends came to him, telling him of thelr own unsatisfactory
experiences and recommending that he not do it. One even said "TI
think anyone who had such a fool idea ought to go and get his head
examined". <? :
Also consider p.71 line 13 ---- (Note comments under this section
when you come to it)
ll line 17 For Christmas--bossea in chemical plants earning $225/mo.
rarely give the worker a present; in the case of a secretary, the
boss's wife may give the secretary a present, usually of small value,
e.g. one pair of silk stockings at the most. (note p. 16 that Dr.G.
has a wife). A vanity set might be appropriate. However, 1t may be
your purpose here to throw this off-color.
line 20. The standard rule about vacations which applies to all
big chemical companies that I know about is that e person gets
in the summer (usually between June and Sept., the time sometimes
being optional and sometimes not) one week of vacation if he came
to work before Jan.1, and two weeks if before August of preceding
year. A chemist gets no vacationm around Christmas except the day
of Dec.25 and Jan. 1, regardless of how long he has worked. Ina
few companies, a chemist may make specia arrangements to take part
of his summer vacation around Christmas,
12, line 28. 420 would be more accurate than $18, considering that
. Bill has an A.B. and has gone so far from home; it will still be
under Janet's $22.50.
13, line 10. Gompound A. We would say "unknown compound A", or
simply “unknown A”.
14 line 1 "sulfonation of an anthraquinone compound" (note spelling also)
1l with anthraquinones
8 better to say "one of the thermometers had broken" (I don't
pelleve a thermometer ever just "leaks")
last line. Laboratory coats are usually laundered by the co: .
We usually say "rinse out her stockings and Lingerie™---reserving
the word "launder" for a more heavy wash.
line 7 commissary--the more common word is "lunéh room"( where one
eats the lunch he has brought ffom home) or "cafeteria" as the
case may be.
line 18 "routine analysia". "Routine work" would be better; he is not
in the analytical laboratory if he is assisting Dr. Balley on the
sulfonation of anthraquinone.
last line. change "count iodine numbers" to "determine iodine numbers".
pe19-22 Comments
State Universities are big institutions and they have definite rules
that no professor and no department may break. Exceptions are not made.
fhere are two objections which anyone who has ever attended a State
University would raise to this Section:
1. A graduate school ruling is always that of requiring one school
year of residence at the University before getting an M.S., regard~
Tess of the amount of work accomplished. In some Universities this
ruling can be ov engene 2 provided that the student lives where thé
University is, or Where the University has an Extension Division,’
py doing the laboratory work at the industrial plant and attending
night classes at the University, but I know of no case where it can
pe done at a distance. “Correspondence” courses when not a resident
are limited to undergraduates.
2. All State Universities require a thorough physical examination by
the University physician before entrance. A pregnant female would
not be admitted, i.e. Janet must get pregnant after being admitted
to the University.
Morever, companies never permit employees to use their facilities for
personal purposes without knowing in detail what experiments are to be
carried out and why. It is against the safety regulations. That is to say,
that the matter of a leave of absence to go to school must come up at the
time they get thelr permission to use the puilding and not after the work
has been completed.
It oceurs to me that the theme of becoming pregnant both times just as
Janet started back to school is a little overworked, although I am well
aware that women in general seem to like such a theme. Since in this more
modern world, such events are considered not so much the acts of God, as the
acts of man, so to speak, your modern reader might think Janet was pretty
dumb to let the same thing happen the second time in the same way. May
I suggest the following possible alternate theme for p.19-22 which would
also overcome the difficulties cited above. Then leave p27---as is. -
When Janet found she was pregnant she realized that she must quit work
ently at Union Chemical, due to the Commny ruling that when a married
woman quits to have a child she may not again be re-employed (fhis is a very
common policy). When she caloulated thet the three of them must liWe on
Bill's salary alone, and that it would in all probability never exceed $150/mo
with his present qualifications, this meant thet they would never have that
luxury which she had sought for as her original goal; movever, when the child
grew old enough to go to college, due to laak of finances, the child would
pe forced to fight the same battles which she and Bill had had to fight in
order to get as much education as they had. Memories of what she had missed
in order to get her education were too fresh for her to want her. child to
repeat the experience. Thus she began to realize that with all the hard work
she and Bill had not made a real step forward toward her goal inasmuch as she
would be able to furnish her child with no more than her parents had furnished
her. Janet was not a quitter. She concluded that she must go forward while
the child was too young to know, to finish the job that she had begun. Then
they decided to quit work just before the baby was'to be born, go back to the
farm to have the child and same the money that it would have cost to have the
child away from home (high doctor bill, hospital fees, nurse, etc., about
4205 total) as compared with the $25 total for the country doctor at home
($25 18 actually the cost in farming districts in Indiana). This amount,
together with a teaching assistantship which Hogart could offer, would
cover the expenses. Of course, it would be no fun to have the baby at
Bill' mothers home with antiquated methods of delivery, no anesthetic,
the old fashioned ways of taking care of a new baby, ete.
p.20 line 17. Thesis on the pinacone-pinacolone rearrangenent.
(The exemple you cited occurs as an intermediate for the Neoprene
_reaction which is not fitting here.)
p.23 line 1l. A cleaning woman three times a week for a family of three in
Wilmington on $185/mo is impossible. Usually in that salary range, which
. 48 correct under the conditions indicated, a woman does all her work ’
or has a cleaning woman 1/2 day or one full day per week for heavy work.
p.25. This page is missing.
p.26 line 10 Neoprene :
11 The expression "make his Ph.D." 18 unfamiliar to me. One
usually hears "take his Ph.D." or"Get his Ph.D.".
p.27 line 20 work on acetylene hydrocarbons (no capitals or Lae)
al "gome new heterocyclic nitrogen ring compounds" instead of
"oxazoles". (oxazoles fall in this classification; one works
on a class of compounds; the thesis title 1s chosen after
the work is completed.)
p.33 line 12 "General Introduction to Theoretloal Chemistry” would be better.
p.35 line 7 I.G.Farben formulas (not butylenes)
p36 line 6 The term "glass cages" is not good (unnecessary glass is not
used on account of explosion hazards} perhaps, "dark, smelly
cages" is what you want.
12 May I suggest ® "plainly commercial or with connections "=--~-=
get to the top as executives, or receive better salaries as
salesmen. (vice-presidents and Board Directors get their
positions usually because of their financial interests. )
27 Chemists' Club (note position of apostrophe )
p.43 line 3 salicylic acid should read “acetyl salicylic acid"
p44 line 24 butadiene
26 acetylene hydrocarbons
27 Neoprene
pe46 line 10 with butylenes :
20 I would substitute "in the conference room" for board meeting.
peA47 line 25 conference meeting instead of board meeting.
p.48 line|23 should be "butylenes”
p.49 line 23 "Double hook" I am not sure how to advise you on this. The
correct expression 16 "conjugated double bond". To make this correct
4t would read "It's this godforsaken conjugated double bond", he
sighed. "No conjugated bond, no rubber. Well, butylene doesn't
nave it, it's just a mk simple double bond". ‘This sound a little
too technical for the layman; however, not too technical for Bill
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to use with Janet. sg you have 14“perhaps 1en't too far off.
p.57 line 12 $250 would probably be better
p.63 line 4"company"instadd of “trust”
p-64 line 18 Probably better to change to "No. I probably wouldn't get
a job half as good if I quit".
p.67 line 20. I suggest that you change to "I'll write to the Givil
Service Commission and find out about it". "I might write to the
University too to see if they know of any jobs" (Roger Adams Hoes
not yonate job placements; thie is left to an underling, a personnel
man.
p71 line 1 fore
3 foreground Is this too much repetition for good diction?
4 foresight
p73 line 13 "there was not much left" .should probably be toned down a
little. I suggest that you say "the best thing to do is to
creep under-~-"
line 18 to end of page.
The personnel of the Regional Laboratories and also many govern-
ment chemists would not like this paragraph at all inasmuch as they
have considerable pride in being very much alive and a part of
national affairs, having interesting problems and of giving :
opportunity and a real career to these who wish to enter the service.
They also feel that good advertising is important due to the necessity
of getting funds to run the laboratories. They would particularly
resent such phrases as "slow decay" -=-- "who cares attitude"
p-77 line 20 Pekin instead of Peoria
p79 line 6 omit or change Reger Adams
p-80 line &7 Articles to be presented at an A.C.S. meeting are never
_ published until after the meeting; hence the particular article
by William J.Sparks on Polybutenes could not have been available
to them since it is stated p.78 line 13 and also p.87 line 4 that
the paber is to be read at the meeting.
p.81 line 6 eliminate or change. Beoria.
p.82 line 1. change Indiana
27. say merely "had to go back to the vegetable oils" (Omit Peoria)
18 butylenes (instead of isobutylene
p.86 line 7 change to "with the government, the regional laboratories"
(omit in Peoria)
18 butylenes (instead of isobutylene )
p.87 line 28 the gum formations (not "ouf
29 change Peoria
p.88 line 1 change Peoria
91 line 21 change Peoria
93 line 24 change in Peoria
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ve your note of May 18, 1943, request-
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““in the introduction Giles Vicki Baun's book ( The
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wvoiding all the possibilities of libel.
Kon tas just lef; and we are waiting
to seo how he mukes out in the army,
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VICKI BAUM
Dear Don,
Ina hurry, enly about those formilas the India Rubber People resented.
I took she forme from an article in Fortune , written by Howard Wolf, checked
by Dr Sparks.\ Compared it with the formila given in some government pamphlets
eBout eynthetie "pubber and had it checked once more by a chemist. I don't quite
see how it could be wrong.I gave the forma for natural rubber in the intro-
duction, and it fis quite different. Anyway, even the India Rubber world should
know that the forma tor naturel rubber includes an unsolved X. So, please,
leave everything as it 1A\,Please, poocosh the book( as my Mexican friends say)
and thanks for everything. Big hope you like the tempt ary set-up. at DD & Co-
in any case, it seems you Racbe re having afooa season. I just read an add
about "Hungry Hills" which von See that you can sell even the most boring
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Dear Miss» Baum, }
Having just finished the reading of 'Yihe Weeping Wood",
may I commend your work,from ithe viewpoint of the Rubber
Chemist, and offer some corfections for a few very noticable
errorse 4
Page 347,line 12 tie word should be washing,not watchinge
Page 360,line 22 btnyt Benzine please correct to Ethyl Benzenes
line ayy Soan Solution in place of soanstone solution.
Page 470,line “7 ‘The same mistake as above
Page SOL Ling! 25 Jananese, village not Javanese ;
Pare 365 / You have pictured here the formula for Rubber,
/ not Buna Se
Your charecterization of working in a rubber research bureau is
perfect» Mey I thank you again for effording me an interesting
story,it will prove of value to all that reads
Sincerely yours, | tox kone
fee
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May 17th 1945
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(22m, According to our contract we heve exclusive
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you, the Buglish publisher,
It is pesible that a few coples may have been shipped
into the British Bupiire but, if ao, they were shipped
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LeBaron Barker, Esq.
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New York, New York
Dear Lee:
I have just had a letter from Earl Hanson, the author of
JOURNEY TO MANAOS which we published some five years back,
who is now out in Liberia. He says in part:
"The object of this letter is to ask whether or not you
gave permission to Vicki Baum and Doubleday-Doran to
plagiarize JOURNEY TO MANAOS in her book "The Weeping Wood."
It is a nice book, and a damed.good job of plagiarism, but
the fact remains that the chapter called Black River, beginning
page 313, is almost entirely a slightly revised condensation
of Journey, with no credit given except that the chapter is
headed by a nine-line direct quote from my book, with acknowledg—
ment that I wrote that small part of it.
I was quite surprised to find myself in the chapter under
the name of Maxwell Tyler. Otherwise I run pretty true to type.
I've just come down from the Yavita Pimichin portage, am on
the Rio Negro, lousy with malaria, and have exactly the same
kind of delirium bouts that I had the first time in 1943 and
then agaittig38 in Journey. Not verbatim, of course, but
exactly the same pattern, with the same brilliant conversations,
including one with my father. And boy, am I sorry for myself
all over again, and did I bite again on buying local quinine
that is mainly bicarb of soda. (I'11 hand it to the wench, she
read my book carefully.)
In this book I'm glad to-find that I am also running a- magnetic
survey for the Carnegie Institution of Washington, even though
the brave. Vicki slipped up and called it the Carnegie Institute.
And how do you suppose I repay social obligations? I haven't
changed a bit, I do it by turning on my field radio and giving
people concerts. And then there is the same brutal stuff
coming in with the news, that sounds so savage over the radio, and
so disturbing. There is even the same talk of war, only this
time it is the European war instead of the Japanese Chinese one.
You've gotta give them a little progress since 1932. But the
people who hear the war news haven't changed a bit. They go wild
» LeBaron Barker, Esq. -2- T-2-45
with joy, exactly as they did in 1932, because now the price
of rubber will go up.
On this last trip I find that I camp in one of the old rubber-
palaces on the Rio Negro, instead of just going by them and
commenting on them. That is the way I do things really right
when I'm managed by @ novelist. And who do you think I run
into? Why, a German tramp, of course, who was squeezed out of ©
Germany by economic stress. He isn't Walter Pillkahn this time;
his name is something else because he is here a combination of
Walter Pillkahn and my old friend Jack Diamond. He'd done
about what Pillkahn had done and he'd done just what Diamond
had done in JOURNEY TO MANAOS, worked on the Madeira Mamore railroad
and then boomed to Henry Ford's place where he didn't like it so
well for exactly the same reason Diamond didn't like it.
There is quite a similarity of pattern in the conversations too.
In Journey I keep saying to my Knaut: "Mensch bist du verrttckt?"
Here the guy has the crust to say to me: "Mensch, mach doch die
Augen auf."
Friend Vicki went a little too far, I think,when she killed me
off on the Rio Negro. Now I'm med, and wondering whether I should
not do a little spot of ha'nting both Vicki and her publishers.
I'm sending a covy of this letter to my friend and lawyer, Mr.
Jacques Bacal, 522 Fifth Avenue, New York, who handles all my
affairs there. I'd like to ask you to call him wp and talk to
him about the matter after you've gone into it yourself."
I am just off for two weeks and have had no chance whatever to
look into the matter myself but I think perhaps you had better
have the two books compared and have a word with me about it when
I get back. This is the first I have heard of any relationship
between them,
Sincerely yours,
Curtice BYtchcock
Nr, Lee Barker : August 6, ..
Karon Bye
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T have cheoked the poluts which My, Hanson mentions in, his letter,
and It seems to me that while there is sone justification for his
attitude, the eltuation is not nearly aw bad as he makes it sound.
fo say, ag he does, that "the chapter called Black River, beginning
page 313, 15 almost entirely a slightly revised condensation of
Journey," is at leant extravagant.
Viokt Baun's character, Maxwell Tyler, has three things “in common
with Mr. Hansont ,
1. Both were commiastoned by the Oernegie Institution ® study
the magnetism of the earth,
2, Both have malaria,
3, Both use thely field radios to entertain the natives,
These facts appear in both books:
1. The natives! reagtion to the war (Sino-Japanese in JOURNEY,
(Huropean in U8 VEXPING Wood),
8, The building of the Madetra-Mamore railroad,
3, Fordlendia
4, The dilapidated xubber paleces
5. the adulterated quinine
Here Miss Baun probably used Henson's book ag a source, Dut all these
facts are no doubt available elsewhere,
From e creative point of view, there is little similarity, Tyler's
boute of delirium are not identieal with Hanson's; anything they
have in common (conversations with people who ara not present, visions
of fregh fwmult, ete.) seem to be aluply general charactorLatians of
delirium, And Forique, Migs Baum's Geman tramp, is by no means a
combination of Henson's Pillkahn and Jack Diamond. Pillxahn is a
vague, mildly insane men who 1s loving for a settlement which ceased
to exiet 150 years ago; he had Loft Germany during the period of
infletion after. the first World War, and he worked in the of} fields
go to South Americe end work on the Paneme Canal. Bike Diamond, he
worked on the railroad and at Fordiandia. I'm sure Mr, Hanson hes
Wheat it adds up to, i think, is that Miss Baum should have acknowledged
her use of JOURNEY TO MSHAOS ac g Source back; she is not, however,
gullty of any sreat literary crime,
%
i om attaching 2 few pages of quotations from both books, covering
the major points a4 issue,
4
Delixiun.- conversations with father:
BAGH
®Iy hie fever Tylor had many discussione
with hie father, and he watched with
pleasure how beilliantly and imrefutably
his own arguments were pitted againet
the reactionary, senile oratories of
the old man." (p.31)
Suinine -
"Becouse the quinine he had bought in
Sen Fermando de Atabapo had turned out
to be nothing but farina dod sodium
bivarbonate, and no one up the Orinoco,
the Atebapo, and down the Bie Negro:
gould help him out with o sufflotent
dose of real quinine.® (p.314)
HANSON
t,,. Bt took me back to Berlin,
to my ninth year, when Thad °
pnepaonia « how clearly 7 could
wememher all that. Mere, ina
minute, a man would come to see
mo; I would reqognine hin
instantly es my father, who had
shaved off hie sustacke when his
gon was ALL with pnepmonia, and
had gone to the slek little boy
pretending to be somebody else.
God and Nepoleon, with hands Like
Vieginia hams ~ that was splendid;
that way one knew one hed. handa
and feeb, and a jaw» Father was
sitting there, talking - he hadn't
@haved off hia mustache after oli,
it was white now + oh, Father, why
don't you keep quiet + Lb ie hard
to listen to you... At de splendid
to Lie Like that with all ones
faquities sharpened, with feet
and hends and Jaw aa gteat as they
had. been when that boy of nine had
‘been intrigued by them in the same
way; it 4a splendid to be a Little
‘boy again, and to be carried in
0 see the Chriatias tree and forget
about having pnewmmonia, and to wake
up the next morning without a head-
acha, and with a drean that one's
father had taken the ache out of
one's head and hung 46 on the
Chrigtmsa tree.” (pp.26%68.)
*Sergeant Felix watched me teke my
newlybought bottle of quinine
from the box of supplies. “Lets
see that stuff!t he said.
T gave it to him, ‘That's no
good, It's adulterated.
4,., im a mathomatiolan, and
I've been gent here by the Carnegie
Tnatitute,! g
‘the Inatitute sends you here to
do whet?! Entique add,
}
‘Qo cheok up on terrestrial,
negiakient to study the magne»
tion of the earth, if that means
euything to you," Syter sata."
(9.823)
jex.Hexs,
tyLep heave Hitler's apeeoh
announsing the invesion of Poland,
‘and tolls the natives that was
has beguns
‘“Potpiolos,' Barique shouted, overt
all the cheerful olumor, ‘amigos,
now our troubles are overt Wa do
not have to Leave, we do not have
to go to Ceara and work Like peons.
fou heard it. Ward dvviba la
guerral
much rubbery
ton milvels a kilo, twenty mired ay
wo shali ell be tinh, vary wich, very
very rich," eta, & 336)
Avyttal They will need rubber,
they will pay any price,
Hanson
(Oont.)
‘How do you know?!
‘I’m perry to aay that all our rivera -
here are Flooded with stuff they call \>
quinine bat thet!e mainly flour or
ploarbonate of soda,’ (p,282)
‘ventually the Carnegie tngtitution
hired, me temporar sty to make & survey
of the earth's magnetian, nob in the
pola regions but in the interior and
© Lv Weat Soast of South America."
Pe
The natives ave lintening to Hanson's
vedio} there da a news broadcant
eannowielng the duvasion of Manchurlat
"a pipphe of exolhemont apread through
the village. People gume out of their
houses to ase abouk the matter. Nohody
wanted te listen to my meso, A wart
A Peyhaps now we gan ee]i
our vubber egain, and have life here, and
atop Living like saveges, and be decent
aividived people. Did you heat that
the doetor said there was going to be
Bg
So the yomor epread like wildfire, among
these people who had spent years rag
nothing but plent vogotables, hunt, fish =
waiting for the dey when the world's trade
would res then out again," ate,
Cop 46-47
Yowlaue, the German, tells Tyler about
working on the railroads
") Bonhor Cylor, you will nob moet
mony men who can gay they worked on
the Medeive-Memore and are etill
alive, Maybe you heard whet thoy
sey of hex, “very tle on thet
Teilroad gost the Life of a man...
When we start tbudiding that ferro«
sorrii, thera ts geet rubber boom,
more than three dollar the pound, >
fine Pare, In sinetean hundred,
thirteon it is over, Prise goes
dow, Windeh, We been fools,
We been ovasy. Locos. Thore ts
& Yallvey through the jungle Pfom
Porto Velho to Guajara-Mirin, and
nohody wants to wee it, A new
fexvocarril, a fine rallwey,
from nowhere to nowhere, and the
vubbex isn’¢ worth shipping! sn.
T work in Fordiendia myself, from
1980 to 1982, up Bho Tapajos. With
my own eyes T gee the young trees
get miek oud dle... My, Ford is a
veligious man, no? Good trieniof
God, My, Bord, no? Only mayhe God
does not know about it ond makes Mr,
Ford's Little rubber trees all sick,
2 tell you something, Americano,
Madelre was bad. Putumaye wad bad.
But Fordlendia was more bad, ‘to
dwink, verboten, To swear, verboten,
fo enoke, verboten, 7 did not ron
avay fron Cor: to Live in a gode
damed prison, Of Mr, Pord wants
his serlnguekros to be Little angels
with white wines and nice, clean,
white shirys « adios, Unriquel Mr.
PoRd budlds roads and houses anda
faucet with water in every houee
and a sohool and a hospital, and
all, children must be clean ali the
RANSON
Waek had originally gone to
South “merioa to work on the
construetion of the Madelra-
Mamore Redlrond, that frightdul
job that was hacked through the
Bragilian jungles about the time
the Penema Ganal was bullt, and
that wes said to have cost one
L4fe, from disease, for eveiy
tie in the voad. On the termina«
tion of that work, Jack had boomed
to the Vest Coast, to help budld
Chugileanate, the power plant
in Togopille, and the various
other produota of the podtecanal,
‘poom, But then the depression
dane end Leafs him strendeds..
Pounileas and dissouraged on the
West Qoast, he had eroused the
Andes ond "thumbed" his way down
the Bend River, by hook or orool,
by Leunch, seaiiboat, balsa raft,
end cence, Hia thought had been
that on the MadoliarMamore Baile -
road, where they had known him
sines construction days, he could
always f10d work, But the rall-
road was vistuslly dead. The
British firm that hed wun Lt slnee
athe days when Americans had built
At, had given tp the ghost and
told the Brazilian government,
thet, since the collepse of the
rubber boom, there was not enough
traffio in the country to moke
®& Failroad pay, ‘The gavernment
hed taken it over, largely because
4te sbandonmont would mean, too,
the sbandonment of a number of
towns that had aprung up in the
. Jungle along, and as e result of
the railroad, The government
was runmiing one train each way
avery two weeks, had too many
employees on Lis hands, and could
BAUM
tine and go to school, every dey,
and every man gets needles stuole
into him, and in the ohildren too,
end the women, You cannot treat
Brazilians Like thigh...
Seven years ago... when rubber
waa go low you cannot buy a dink
of water with an arroba of Mune
Para, I go back to Porto Velho,
1 apeals to the jofe of the forror
gare] and explain -to hin my
altvuation, Senor Jefa, 1 say
to hin, 1 have helped buldd .
this railway. There le not a rath
between Galaleirac and Mutua
whieh I have not helped Lay
with my own hends, Senor Jefe,
1 say to him, t am tived of the
Amazonas. + oa an angineer,
and you sée dn me an educated
man who ia willing to do good,
honest work. Senor Rnrique,
the jefe answers with erent
piliiteness, I am ovexikgned
by regret, bus do you realize
that we yun only one trein every
second week, just in order to
maintain the conoasslon?!!!
(pp. 327332)
HANSON
not give work to Jack DMemond, :
So Jack's old fvtonds had taken up
® collestlon to send him down the,
Medelva River, down the Amazon for
gone Five hundied miles, ant up the
Tapajos to Wordlandia,' where Henyy
Ford had a reputation of never refusing
work to any man who game to hig mibber
plantation in search of At.
The vent ig conjeature, though, four of
ud, Old frhonda of Jack's, agracd about
what must have happened. He was given
work on the Tord plantation tt he was
an O14 dog who could not adjust himself
to the new morality that Henry Tord
had injected Into the Amagonian jungle
frontier. Tt seeus that in Tordlandia
nobody is alldwad to drdnic and perhaps
to smoke, on paln of dlemissaly the
goasip throughout the Amazon Basin was
that nobody was allowed to awoar either,
and thet alk carnal thoughts were
regarded as balefully as, in. Detroit
today, is a desire, even bars supe
ressed, to join the G, I, 0.
tpp.74n98)
August 6th, 1945.
Dear Vicki
Ginee Don is stil. sway on vacution, I am therefore writing you about
Earl. Henson's complaints several, weeks ago Hanson kicked to hie pub}
lishers, Reyna] & Hitchoook and alleged thet you had plagiarised hie hook,
JOURNEY TO MANAOS In THY WREPING FOOD. Curtice Hitchcock wrote me about
it at the time ond IT passed 1+ along to Don whose againtent Karen Rye
has made an anslysle of the alallarity between the two books.
& few days ago I had another call from Curtice saying that Henson was
getting more and more anpleagant.and he thought we ought to do something
about the matter s@ soon as possible. Curtlee, of course, would dike bo
gee the whole thing settled amicably and forgotten, and he thinks his
author ie being an awful nuisance to pursue 1b.
Apparentiy Jacques Becal, Hanson's lawyer having compared beth books feale
that he hag the basis for a plagleriem suit (and probably a good fee).
Qurtice Hitcheock thinks that thie aan be averted by a Letter of apology
for not giving Hanson suffioient oradite From Mies Ryets report I would
judge that he is nob entitled to too much more credit anyway, but of
course he does have a certealn amounb of nuisance value. I don't believe
for a minube thet he gen win a law quit, but he can probably make e Lob
of trouble and cost us some legal feos. J'd be in favor of making poace
with him for that reavon, but the final dectalon de certainly yours.
I'm sorry to bother. you with all this.
BkLeen and I have been hoping that you'd come on thie falls weld love to
age you again.
As ever,
oMn
Mich., Mexboo.
yeeree opt yates
Balneario San José: Purua
Mich. y, Mexico
August 16, 1945
Dear Lea, - J
Your letter was the first thing I ever heard about the trouble with
Earl Hanson. I am enclosing my answer to him and hope that it will take care
of it. However, I have to get tough with Doubleday, Yoran and strictly refuse
any inorimination in this whole business. "Weeping Wood" was hot stuff and fwil
of little traps and possibilities of libel suits etc. I asked, then, that your
lawyers might go over it with a fine comb and ! begged Don repeatedly to mak
sure that there would be no trouble about quotations, mentioning authors, saying
thank you, and so on. I remember distinctly to have asked several times whether
we had an okay by Barl Hanson and his publishers, and was assured thet all this
was taken care of. If you look in your files you might even find it in the corr-
espondence. I think the whole thing came out just before you came in and so
you won't know about it. But I must definitely refuse all responsibility. My
business is to write pooks end Doubleday, Doran's have to look after the Legal
and formal side of it. Now ain't that true?
Right after my return I'll have to move into our new house and finish a
story for Collier's. I should like to come to New York in January but God knows
how, a) my health and pb) transportation will be by that time. I certainly would
like to see you and Eileen. Give her all my love and the very best to you.
Allway s yours,
. ‘
P.8.: If my letter to Hanson is okay, please Vicoler
keep a copy of it and send it off for me.
Thenks.
4M be beet i Marnclirn hy Loh GME ,
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ys Auguet 80, 1048
Deer Gurtideat
Thye bewn a long time gutting a Letber from .-
Vioks| BaumAn reply to Hayt Heneon, because ae you know she lives
out oh-th@ Joagt and she has recently been in Maxioo, I'm sorsy
about the delay and I hope you will tel] Bay] Hanson that £6
hagn't been entively our fault, a
You will note thet Migs Baum suggests in her -
Lebter that in future editions a auiteble oredit line might be
inoluded, and this of course we would ba only too glad to do. -
T’m suve that you realize that we too ave disturhed over Hanson's
annoyance and want to de everything posalble to heal the breach
between him and Mise Bown,
Sincerely,
Leo Rerker
ay.0D :
My, Curtloe Hiteheook:
Reyna and Hitcheosk.
8 Vest 40th Street
New York: 18, New York
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Auguat 30th, 1945.
via air mail
Dear Vicki:
Your letter to Rarl Hanson ie a wasterplewe and I think 1t ought
to clear up everything, It is ay fault that the matter ever cane
up, a@ince I never got a clearance from Hangon or his publishers.
The reason that f did not was that socording to the permissions
department it was not necessary since Lessa then one hundred words
of directly quoted material had been used, and in such cases it ie
technically not necessary. However, I should not have let it go
at that and I should have followed it up just to be on the safe side.
So you are quite right in declining all responsibility of the matter
and we will attend to any further developments.
I hope you are feeling better and will be coming to New York soon.
Love,
DBE.
. : faa cant U) treepurol
use tiaGonne YU erp lee
f Pasadena, Galifornia.
5 05 Alen ers
REYNAL & HITCHCOCK, INC.
PUBLISHERS +: & WEST FORTIETH STREET : NEW YORK 18, N. Y.
we August 30, 1945.
Lee Barker, Esq.
Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.
14 West 49th Street
Rew York 20, New York
Dear Lee;
which you enclose with
ninth? It seems to mq that I hav¢@ seldom read a more
tactless epistle or one less wellj calculated to do what
I assume the lady wanted to do, famely to mollify the
complainant. I don't know why If should be spending time
want to be pestered with more tterness and maybe a
lawsuit (which I confeds seems fto me absurd), they have
to do so.
Curtice Hitchcock
jie
REYNAL & HITCHCOCK, INC,
PUBLISHERS % 8 WEST FORTIETH STREET +: NEW YORK 18, N. Y.
October 18, 1945.
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Dear Lee: VA bt Jou é
With respect to the Earl Hanson,#iatter. Ir cx peat we bls
Vicki Baum's letter to Earl Harison and have finally
succeeded in getting the congent of Hanson's attorney
to pass it on to Hanson with his recommendation that no
further action be taken.” I eliminated from Baum's
letter several of the more unpleasant and wholly
gratuitous paragraphsand I think the house of Double-
day owes me a drink Aor going to considerable trouble
to save them from ‘feouble. ae
f ‘
Tt should be pa Cioulerly noted, however, that in any SOtienracda
future edition of the novel whether original or reprint ce
some form of reasonable credit should be given to Hanson's {ict 7
book and to gave yourself from future pain I would sugges
that you giye me a look at it before it is inserted. Lis min &
r, RAL
Curtice Hitcheock
ae ae & COMPANY, INC.
Memorandum: For: daenpeiedtream cls Date 10-25-45»
From: —
__.. Before- -any~plans -go~ through fora reprinting of another ‘edition ities (OOD by
Baum, will you be sure to @lag Mr. Elder, because there is a change to be made in
the front. matter of the book contéining acknowledgements.
thenks.
maryen.
October 26th, ok
Dear Vicki:
Curice Hjtehaock telld me that he has passed on your letter to
Earl @ attorney who has recommended that no further ection
be taken. This seems wise on his part, since he hasn't mach of a
ease anyhow and apparently was just lebting off steam, I stii1
feel very guilty about having let you in for this umpleasant eptigede;
it was one of the thousand detaile that sometimes slip by me, and 3
promise you that I'LL never let 1¢ happen again. re eat
I think 4t would be wise in future editions of pu WEEPING WOOD,
which ie now in reprint, to give credit to ‘s book dn your
acknowledguent page and if you will tell me how you would like the
acknowLedgnent phrased 111) wee that 1t is inserted in any. future
editions.
T haven't heard from you for # long time and I hope that you are well
end thinking of a new book. I partiovularly hope that you might be come
ing to New fork thie winter ag J am-yearning to have a long talk with
you on every #ifeot dn the world. Ken is out of uniform and back in
the office and it saeme- like old tines.
Give my best regarde to both Welfgeng and Ruth and to Dr. Lert.
With much love,
Ag ever,
DBE.
Miss Vicki Baum,
588 Glen Arm,
Pasadena, Oslifornia,
vie air mail.
VICKI BAUM
December Sd 4 1945
IKR.DON SLDER
C.0, DOUBLEDAY , DORANS:CO.
14 W 49th SER.
Naw YORK, N.Y.
Dear Dons
Gosh,darn it, I forgot all about that line of
recognition for Warl Hanson, I think we shove it in
after the line about Ruth Me Kenney and it should go
about like this; To Tarl Hanson, whose JOURNEY TO MANAOS
threw new lights on the never-changing trails of travelers
in the Amazon,
I'm jotting this down in great haste - soon more.
Love as na,
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,P20 EAST 86%! STREET
- NEw YerK ...
December 12, 1945
Doubleday Doran & Co., Inc.,
14 West 49th Street,
New York, N.Y.
Gentlemen;
On October -Srd_Fwrote lies Vicki Baum on behalf of
Editorial. Febo of d) asking the conditions on which the
Spanish language Liants of her books, THE WEE PING WOOD and
MARION could be obtained, and I have e reply from her advising
ne that all matters concerning the rights of her books are
handled by yous Will you, therefore, please let me know if
such rights-tre still open and name the fgyure at which they
‘ could-be obtained?,
MT, ~"s
nef The Spanish editorial houses are very active again
and are looking to this country for best sellers to publish
in Spain, As the same situation no doubt exists with respect
to the SouthnAmerican publishing houses 1% might be of interest
to the author, under the circumstances, to sell separately the
rights for Latin America and the rights for Spain proper,
te
Trusting that I may be favored with your answer
soon, I remain,
Very truly yours,
Manuel Alonso
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DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, INC,
"Memorandum Foxton a pate _12-M-A5
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From: Lee Booth,
You will gee from the attached letter that Vicki Baum has told
Mr. Alonso that we handle the translation ughts of her book,
WEEPING WOOD. However, our records show that Dr. l. B, Landshoff
of L, B. Fischer Pyblishing Co. handle all foreign and transla-
tion rights of this book. ‘his is according to a letter dated
2-2-45 from Vicki Baun, Jf this is an indication that she is
changing her agent, and that we may now handle the rights, I'm
delighted of course, and shall be glad to answer Mr. Alonso (7
accordingly. Will you advise? Ad
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Devember 19th 1945
Dear ry Slonse,
i em indeod serry that 1 am not able te
newer your questions concerning THE
WEEPING WOOD by VA Be fg have
now been vaquested en” nl inguivies
for translation vights to Dr, I. fe
bandshoff, o/o fh. B. Macher Publishing
Oorpey 381 Hourth Avenue, New York 16,
N.Y, WALL you therafare kindly com
munigaty weth be, hendahoft,
Sdacercly yours,
Ls Gy Booth
Monuah Alonso, Baqe,y
5a) Bast 66th Shreet,
Now York 28, Bas
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