BLACKWELL FAMILY  GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL
Rockefeller, Nelson A.Alice Stone Blackwell
1010 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, Mass.

Oct. 1, 1940

Mr. Nelson A. R. Rockefeller,
30 Rockefeller Plaza,
New York, N. Y. 

Dear Sir:-

Under another cover, I am sending you my book, "Some
Spanish-American Poets." Please examine it, and see whether you 
cannot use it in the present effort to promote cultural relations 
with Latin America. The improvement of cultural relations was
one of my chief motives in compiling the book.

I can make this request without shame, as all the work
that I have done along this line has been a labor of love, for which
I have taken no payment. The first edition of the book was brought
out by Appleton at my expense, with the agreement that after the
first edition was exhausted the plates and copyright would
become my property. When that happened, I made over the plates
and the copyright to the University of Pennsylvania Press, with the 
stipulation that they should publish the book in low-priced
form, and set aside the money received from the sales toward the
cost of another edition when this one should be exhausted, as I 
wanted the book to be continuously available. 

     My friends urge me to take some steps to increase the
circulation of the book, as they think it could be widely useful.
But I am in my 84th year and partially blind. I can do nothing
about it myself.  I can only call the book to your attention, and


Alice Stone Blackwell
1010 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, Mass.

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suggest that you make use of it. 

My object is not to make any profit from it, but only to
promote a wider cultural exchange between the English speaking and
the Spanish American countries.

Yours sincerely,                                                            1010 Massachusetts Ave
                                                             Cambridge, Mass.

Mr. Nelson A. R. Rockefeller
              30 Rockefeller Plaza
                         New York, 
                                       N.Y.
Dear Sir:
                     Under another cover, I am sending
you my book,  "Some Spanish-American Poets." Please
examine it, and see whether you cannot use it in the
present effort to promote cultural relations with
Latin America.   The improvement of cultural relations
was one of my chief motives in compiling the book.
           I can make this request without shame, as
all the work that I have done along this line
has been a labor of love, for which I have taken no
payment.           The first edition of the book was
brought out by Appleton at my expense, with the
agreement that after the first edition was exhausted
the plates and the copyright would become my
property.  When that happened, I made over the
plates and the copyright to the University of Pennsylvania
Press, with- the stipulation that they should publish
the book in a low-priced form, and set aside the
money received from the sales toward the cost of
another edition when this one should be exhausted

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as I wanted the book to be continuously available
       My friends urge me to take some steps to increase
the circulation of the book, as they think
it could be widely useful.  But I am in my
84th year and partially blind.  I can do nothing
about it myself.  I can only call the book to your
attention, and suggest that you make use of it.
         My object is not to make any profit from
it, but only to promote a wider cultural exchange
between the English speaking and the Spanish
American countries.
          [If you can give me any suggestions they 
will be gratefully received.]
                                   Yours sincerely