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

May 16, 1889, Smith College.

Dear Friend,
       I was very glad
to hear from you, and
hope soon to hear you,
likewise to see you. Perhaps
the enclosed letter from
Prof Patten may be of
interest. Concerning Mr.
Giddings he is altogether
right; his gain is my
loss! Concerning my
supplement to the wage
monograph I want to hear
again from him, and to
talk with you. It may
well have been too brief
to be clear; though it
does a little surprise me
to have Patten say he
does not see what I
mean. If the passage is
obscure to him it must
be incomprehensible to
the average reader. I have
put all original articles
over till Fall. Quarterly
article will not now be
printed till March 1890.
Prof. Gide asked me for
an article for Revue
d'Economie Politique, and
I put that late also. It
may be he will not like the
delay. If I am to work on
in a vigorous way I must
keep to my rule about
Summer vacations; that
is I must do no work
then. I have three foreign
books on hand for review,
and they are near enough to
my subject to make it
profitable reviewing. They
are Gide's Economic Politique,
Wieser's Natürliche Werth and
Zuckerkandl's Theorie
dos Preises. Yesterday a
severe cold of some week's standing
culminated in a fever, and
I stayed in bed. Today I am
good for agreeable work like
correspondence with friends,
but for not much else.
I lectured on History "all same."
When do you come to N. England?
My mother and sister have leased
a beautiful Adirondack villa, and I
expect to go to them at some time
during the vacation.

      Yours Very Truly,
           J. B. Clark