January 30, 1967 Professor Ludwig von Mises 777 West End Avenue New York 25, N.Y. Dear Professor von Mises: I greatly enjoyed your visit last Tuesday, and I thank you for taking the trouble to come in. I am sorry that I couldn't go to the lecture Tuesday evening, but it was impossible. I will enclose a copy of a letter I just received from a librarian. Could you suggest anything? I will send him the list I put together of "Classics of Modern Conservatism", but I am sure that he wants a more extensive list of books than this, and also one prepared by an acknowledged authority in the field. When you were here last week you asked why we didn't publish an economics journal. I have thought about this since then; the answer is quite simple-- would like to do something of this sort, but it would take a substantial amount of money. We have had some experience with the publication of journals--when I first went into publishing, we published a quarterly for a group at the University of Chicago called Measure. It was a publication of the highest quality, and I think had some influence, far more than one would expect from Henry its circulation which, as I remember, was about ,000. The Foundation for Foreign Affairs, with which I was associated from its founding until Regnery about a year ago, has published Modern Age for some years, and I was closely connected with this. I have a fairly good idea, therefore, I Company think, of what is required to make an effective journal, and how much money it would cost. PUBLISHERS 114 West Illinois Street I have no idea whether it would be possible to finance such a venture, but I would like to talk to you about it sometime if you think that there Chicago, Illinois 60610 might be a possibility of finding the money it would require. I have 527-3300 thought about the subject, and have some ideas about some of the practical problems in connection with the editing, production, etc. I will probably be coming to New York sometime within the next month or two; perhaps we could talk about all this at that time.