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PHONE: MONUMENT 2-2225

March 17, 44

Mr. H. T. Hatcher
The Oxford University Press
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New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Hatcher:

On December 14, giving you the larger part of my Mns ‘Ages in Chaos’, I expressed my belief that the remaining part would be ready in about two months. I miscalculated. The delay is due to the insertion of some new sections dealing with important matters, which necessitated additional research. It will take a few weeks more, before I shall be able to bring you the last file of the Mns.

Looking through a copy of the first part of the Mns, I find some mistakes that change sense. At least one of them I would ask to kindly correct: on the p. 2 of the first chapter, instead of ‘Cheops of the IVth Dynasty, should be ‘Cheops of the IVth and Phiops of the VIth Dynasty’.

The new ideas might be so strange and provocative to the reader whom you may trust the reading of the Mns, that he may have an urge to discuss it with his colleagues. May I ask you, therefore, to kindly explain to the reader, that he should not neglect the usual rule of discretion. If he has some questions, he may put them in writing and I shall be glad to furnish explanation, addressing my answer to your office.

Very sincerely yours,