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PHONE: MONUMENT 2-2225

January 10, 1944

Mr. H. T. Hatcher
Oxford University Press
114 Fifth Ave.
New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Hatcher:

Looking through a copy of the MS ‘Ages in Chaos’, I find in the first chapter two mistakes that change sense.

On the p. 2, line 14, instead of ‘Cheops’ should be read ‘Phiops’,
On the p. 44, line 15, instead ‘natural catastrophe’ should be read ‘national catastrophe’.

The new ideas might seem so strange and provocative to the reader whom you may trust the reading of the MS, that he may have an urge to discuss it with his colleagues. May I ask you, therefore, to kindly explain to the reader that he should not geglect the usual rule of discretion. If he has some questions, he may put them in writing and I shall be gald to give explanation, addressing my answer to your office. He may also freely debate a problem with Dr. Pfeiffer, Director of the Semitic Museum of the Harvard University (if not by chance he himself is your reader).

Very sincerely yours,

Im. Velikovsky