O'TIN LVX ET VERITAS YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS At the Earl Trumbull Williams Memorial NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT January 11, 1957 Ludwig von Mises, Esq. 777 West End Avenue New York, N.Y. Dear Mr. von Mises: Thank you for your attention to the questions in the first fifty pages of the manuscript. It is easy now to clean up the margins in most places, and only a half dozen points remain in these pages which we should discuss together when you have seen the rest of the manuscript. Another fifty pages go to you today by registered mail. These have somewhat more editing here and there than do many later parts of the manuscript. (I want to mention to cheer you that a num- ber of sections of the manuscript have few queries or even suggestions for changing the English.) Two types of frequent queries I might speak about here. The first is the suggestion that vehement words, some of which reccur often, like preposterous, bigoted, arrogant, stilted pedants, be toned down, partly because understatements are often most effective with American readers, and partly to avoid alienating the very people you want to convince. The second is queries about the repetition of a phrase which I believe may occur twenty times in the course of the manuscript - variations of "They were wittingly designed to neu- tralize the effects of the economists' devastating critique of the socialist plans" (page 64); "However, the socialists failed entirely in attempts to prove their case and to fefute the objections raised against it. If (page 78). I believe page 78 is the sixth repetition. We'd hate to think that a single reader believed you had forgotten you used the phrase earlier; and all readers of the manuscript have noted the repetition as unnecessary, and harming rather than helping the book. I hope to have all the rest of the manuscript ready for you very shortly. Sincerely yours,