[Letter] Feb.16,1889,Smith College [to F.H. Giddings]

Feb. 16, 1889, Smith College.
Dear Friend,
       Value it is. Perhaps
I will act on your suggestion
and take Capital. Mr. Dennison
invited me to the Springfield
Club last night, but a
certain amount of illness
scattered about among the members
of my family prevented my
going, much to my regret.
I am getting deeply interested
in Böhm-Bawerk. He has a
style more like a French
rather than any German I
have read. His thought is
very clear-cut, and his theory
if I lightly judge it, will
help to put mine in a
clear light. I can, I think,
considerably strengthen the
case for my Capital, also
Wages-and-Interest theories by
a reference to his work. The
book I am at work on is Part II
of his work on Capital, containing
the constructive part of his
theory. It is just issued.
 I am going to indicate
a bit of Spanish Castle building
with which, for a moment at
a time, I have once or twice
beguiled myself. I wish you
could have the Sociology and
I the Pure Economics, in
the Clark University at Worcester. "If
wishes were fishes, etc." What do you think of
this as an 'economic ideal'?

        Yours Very Truly,
             J. B. Clark