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indeed strengthened by the proposed
change in your formal relation to
the Outlook. With this change I
am quite sure that we can do
more to promote the interests
which we both have at heart.

We shall want our correspondence,
when it is published, to make
clear that our interest in and
loyalty to the principles for
which both you and we have
stood, & to you as the leader
in this great democratic
movement, is unchanged, and
that we can still count on you as

special contribution on social and
political topics.

Of course nothing will be
published, nor by us anything said,
until you return to America. Mean-
while I shall endeavor to draft a
letter in response to yours and
get it into Laurence's hands, for
consultation between you and him;
if, as you have intimated, you return
together on the same steamer.

Believe I pray you in my
sincere affection and esteem for you
and my faith in what you have
so splendidly stood for in our