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five articles, all in sober, high class periodicals, edited by
conservative men. I know you haven't seen any of them, and
I would rather have you gather my opinions from them than from
what the sensational newspapers out here choose to put into
my mouth when I speak in public. Therefore I send you herewith
under separate cover, such articles as I have reprints of.
Please glanse [sic] at them a moment. They are dry. They will
bore you, but you will see at a glance that I am not dealing
much of the time with burning questions. If you will but
look at the pamphlet entitled "Uncertainty as a Factor in
Production" or the article entitled "The Location of Industries"
you will get an idea of the patient labor with which I with
others am trying to make economics a science.

I do not write for the papers or for party organs of
any kind. I write only for the great journals published by
Harvard or Columbia or the other great institutions. The
President of Yale would hardly invite me to write more articles
for the Review he edits if I were a socialist or a dreamer.
The University of Chicago would hardly have published two
hundred pages of my writing in the last four years and be
asking for more contributions at the present moment if I were
a rash and dangerous man.

In my writing I have touched only once on socialism, and
then in a particular connection and in way of condemnation.
It appeared in the American Journal of Sociology published by
the University of Chicago, and I enclose it in this envelope.
You will observe that I speak of Bellamy's plan as a ''chimera''.