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EDWARD S. BEACH
RIDGEFIELD CONN.

NATIONAL CITY BUILDING
17 EAST 42ND STREET
CORNER MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK

December 20, 1921.

John Buchan, Esqr.,
c/o Thomas Nelson & Sons, Publishers,
London, England.

Dear Sir:

As sole and exclusive owner of twenty
volumes of Nelson's History of the War, written by you,
I claim the right to enter a protest:

There isn't enough of it!

Admitting, for the sake of the argument,
that you and your publishers know more about your and
their business than I do, yet I want two or three more
volumes to round out the work, and should hope that
every one who has a set of this history would desire
the same additional matter. So, I beg leave to suggest:

First: A volume amplifying the final
conflict or campaign preceding the Armistice: the
German drive towards Amiens: the struggles of the
British and the French and the Americans , and other
Allies, throughout the Western Line, in the Argonne, etc.

I felt, in reading the last volume,
that it gave evidence of weariness with the work and
gladness on your part to get it off your hands. But
has not the time come when another full volume can be