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449 July 18th, 1911 Dear Mr. Muir, Thank you for your letter of July 14th. illegible enclose herewith the missing page
3 of your manuscript, which was mislaid at the Press while the book was out there for the setting of a sample page. We are
sorry that the matter of arranging for serialization is giving you trouble, but we see no reason why you should not execute
the contracts and let us have one of them back before you start for South America on the 15th of August. This of course would
have no effect on the time of publication, and the magazine taking the aerial rights would of course have all the time they
wanted for the magazine publication. We recognize, of course, that your definite promise of the illegible to us in the correspondence
is final, but in view of the uncertainties of life and illegible , we think it would be much more satisfactory to both of
us to have the contractual arrangements completed before you call. Or, if you would prefer not to sign the actual contract
illegible , perhaps you would be willing to give us a memorandum of agreement, which, being separate from the other matters
touched upon in your correspondence, we could keep, illegible with the contract for your other books. If through any chance
you should not arrange for the serialization of the Autobiography before the time comes for your sailing, we should be glad
to do anything in our power to help the matter along. We have had a good deal of