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might go. Do you mean to say that you would want me to go to some other house with the book of the play. I myself believe that the play as written is bound to be rather first rate dramatic literature.

    And I do think in general Mr Perkins that you should not be too decided. I think I should feel free to come to you from time to time and talk of plans as to a friend.  I have a certain conception of what I conceive to be the right relationship between a writer and his publisher, a relationship that might be,at its best a kind of intellectual marriage and in any such relationship I do not think  that either side should be too positive.

   I say all of this with no intention of trying to get you to publish anything of mine ahead of the sort of more important things you speak of . . . . with the possible exception of the play but rather to put down a kind of general feeling I have and that I think should at once be made as clear as possible. I am very sure you will agree with me

    Sincerely

P.S. As I am about of copies will you esteem the [?] of the Winesburg play as soon as you have had a chance to read it.