JAMES H.Mc GRAW, JR. Mc GRAwW- HILL B OOK COMPANY: ING 5 ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENTS

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

CURTIS G.BENJAMIN
COLLEGE DEPARTMENT

MARTIN M. FOSS -HILL BUILDING
PRESIDENT McGRAW FRANK L. EGNER

JAMES S. THOMPSON 330 WEST 42no STREET MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT
ore NEW YORK,NY. JOSEPH A.HYLAND

CURTIS W.McGRAW PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT

VICE PRESIDENT AND TREASURER CABLE ADDRESS LONDON HUGH J.KELLY

WILLIAM E, HAWKE

“Mc GRAW HILL” NEW YORK ALDWYCH HOUSE,W.C.2. TRADE DEPARTMENT

SECRETARY & ASST. TREASURER

November 4, 19387.

Dr. Forrest C. Allen

Division of Physical Fducation
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas |

BETTER BASKETBALL
Dear Dr... Allen:

This is a somewhat belated acknowledgment of
your letter of October 20th but I know from Mr. McGraw
thet he has already made a reply since you also sent
him a copy of this letter. Consequently, there is
very little more that I can say, although I do want to
make a few remarks in the hope that I may clear up all
questions involved.

First of all you will probably have received
before the arrival of this letter, the last installment
of page proofs, and will have noted that there are a
total of 482 text pages to which must of course be ad-
ded the preliminary pages or "front matter" as these
preliminary pages are properly termed, and the index.
The frontispiece will of course be ineluded among the
front matter pages and proofs of these pages will go
forward to you as soon as we have final copy for the
table of contents with the book page numbers inserted
to replace the manuscript page numbers. Miss Gile I
know is at work on the copy for the front matter, and
we have already prepared a cut for the frontispiece
and two cuts of your signature, one of which we plan
to place beneath your picture, and the other at the
end of the statement. I feel sure that you will send
us the copy for the index as soon as possible after
you have completed the proofreading and returned the
marked set of page proofs to us for final correction.
I might say at this time that I am anxiously awaiting
the return of all corrected pages because I am very
much interested in your reactions to the arrangement of
text and illustrations.

I looked over all of the duplicate page
proofs as they reached us from the printer and was of
the impression that the printer had done a good job