June 6, 1944 
 
Miss Wellmer Pessel# 
Outdoors Book Department 
The Maillan Company 
60 Fifth Avenue 
New York City 
Dear Vies Posselst 
 
I am sending you$ registered. thirteen of the. essays, 
sake pen-and-ink drawings by Albert Hochbaum. I have 
which I could goet into shape if you am interested. 
 
together with prints of 
half a dozen more essays 
 
In order to relate the essavs to the drawings, I will list both: 
 
Drawing No. 
(8.. baok #1 pgrints) 
 
1. Marshland ie.gy ,                 none 
2. Song f the Gavilan                none 
Guacmajanone 
Smoky Gold                       none 
Odyssey                          none 
T- Draba                             none 
S. Great Possessiones v               . 
9. The Green Lagoons                 none 
10. Illinois Bs Ride                  none 
11. Pines Above the Snow,             none 
12.   hinking Like a Mountain         none 
13. The Geese Return                  13 
There are four oth-r drawings that go with 
because they need working over. 
 
yet 
yet 
yet 
yet 
ret 
yet 
yet 
ret 
yet 
 
American Forests, 1937 
Jour. Wildlife Manqgement, 
Condor, 1937 
American Forests, 1940 
none 
Autidubon Magazine * 19142 
none 
none 
none 
none 
none 
none 
none 
 
essays which I am not sending now 
 
Doubtless the first thing is for you to say whether these materials have
any appeal 
to you from the publisher's viewpoint. The object, which should need no elaboration

if the essays are any good, is to convey an ecological view of land and oonservation.

I have no fixed notions as to the possible book. I once thought to call it

'Marshland Elegy - And Other Issays', but "Thinking Like a Mountain
- And Other Essays" 
now strikes me as better. 
I am hoping that Hochbaum can complete the drawings, once he is assured they
will 
be used. You can see more of his work in ?he Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh".

recently published by the Wildlife Institute. 
I await your opinion. 
Tours sincerely, 
Aldo Leopold 
Professor of Wildlife Management 
 
19140 
 
Prior Publation