Document 7R18nq6N3mEE9ERzddY7g5Qwe

July 17, 1957 Mr, Manfred oowditch Lead Industries Association 60 East 4 2nd street New York City'7 Dear Manfred:; Dm sorry to nave r,f, 'ou. waiting for a reply to your Letters, of May and June Z4 about the APHA booklet on lead, but I1 ve been under tiro ^ua at shorter range Uian y our office, and the compulsion has Leer* more .haw I could resist. *n prmCi-ple, a vUim... '.ii.c*t your orooosnt t ,,* ri"cs..r.o out si tiiw *i. .. m_w*Ov. in the Monog rap.- on Lead is a good one. I -would certainly not object any such measure that .-maid give wider votribufcicn to the information contained in it.. I chink the omy question /oulu be that of A M-iA authorities, . /ho might fe<l'that (I) MM M undesirable in its ell, or (2) that it . \;uli militate agaijjst the distrioutioa of an APHA puoiication, thereby costing the API-IA botii prestige and a return on its printing costs. ..'hat is for thorn to decide. / This, uo'-vever, is likely to be an academic point, since I cannot see how the job op revamping the booklet can possibly be tone oy she date you Lave set. This is a labor of love which I have to handle in a very dilute form in the midst of a heavy load of other work. I cannot see how I can get the "spade worn" done by anyone eise,_ dll of my associates are busy with their own extra curricular ivd. J XX P . sic all of them arc >u. rush with the day's work oi .the Department to fill up their available time, i agreed tc accept the chairmanship of the group that is to do this job, knowing full well that it would be much easier to no the job in toto them to act as the cooi .'Mr.Mr of the group and the principal editor of the material. 1 have hardly had time to think about the composition of the group much leas to assign Me tusM. Having done this before, I know what it takes, and if the joo is finished January 1 ..-5?, I shall think it has been accomplished with appropriate speed. It may go more rapidly than I anticipate, and perhaps 1 should have turned it over to some one else altogether, but my sense of duty (or -whatever it is that has gnawed ui my psyche) in this matter virtually compelled me,to accept. This will hardly please you, and by way of making amends, I agree herewith