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whe “ty te Ad, - ° ee Oe Peet Bove aor POPE rape RE GE Ree vi ye Wa ee _ »" ars 4 “eon tee ‘ Dear Mr. Hoover: J As long as I am writing you about the situation in hickeesport I'll send alone these items too, and you can note them and file them in the wastebasket if you care to. You'll note I offered Simon and Schuster a popular {cut authoritative) book on fingerprinting, but they said no, Probetly they are right, Things are happening so fast in fingerprinting that it is a job of doing now rather than writing about or talking about prints. There are still some prejudices to overcome, and some cooperation from newspapers and the public to ask for; but that is a personal jot of selling, I should say, rather than a Jot for a book. Fog a - The evenor| Roosevelt column of June Zlst prompted me _—_— to write the Cleveland Press and the New fork World-Telegram. J don't as yet know whether either letter has been printed, but here *re the letters. You'll enjoy reading them, Iam sure, aS 4 ¥ hope that you and Louis Nichole and Tolson and your aw , . oS : ? other assistants are keeping up your health and your cheerfulness, +on't . let the mass of new work get you dom. Yell for help - from the Army, if re ad eee you can't train new men fast enouch yourself sexing Y- Y= y-H- - 4-837 - ~ - scorDED & IND ef Sincerely -crfin. BURL F. .- “a a vv - ny } Glad you liked my boo ee ee a ST - at : - roe ry