[Letter] Nov.12,1890,Smith College [to F.H. Giddings]

Nov. 12, 1890, Smith College.

Dear Friend,
       This program
business will be the death
of me. I pity a Secretary
of the A.E.A. With all
my letters I am not in
a condition to make a
program. I am uncertain
about having two or three
of the papers at all, and
of four I do not know
the titles. (The two that were attached by you to the
list in Phila. were not
returned by Dr. Ely to me.
He probably thought I had
them.) There are two
others that I do not know.
Of course any grouping I
can make will probably
be bad. I shall ask Dr.
Ely to rearrange it, if it
seems necessary, as it
probably will; and it
would be a favor if you
would send suggestions to
him. I am not sure
of the joint session on
Forestry, but suppose
we shall probably have one.
This is really no way to do the business.
Whoever is in direct communication
with the Executive Committee gets the facts and
can act on them better than a man on
a side track a few hundred miles to the
Northeast. Well - this frees my
mind at least.
Did I write that I want much
the pleasure of seeing your redraft of your
theory of Interest? I do, whether I said so or
not. I want also to get your views as to the
accuracy of my criticism of Marshall's theory of
Distribution.

        Yours Very Truly,
              J. B. Clark