Professor Gilman--Dear Sir: I am now preparing the appendix for
the fifth edition of my "One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a
Globe," and I should be glad to receive your opinion of this work to
insert in the said appendix. I can offer you from a few lines to a
page, or two if necessary. Of course, if this work as a whole be a
fraud, it must be fraudulent in all its parts; and each one of the
"hundred proofs" must contain a fallacy of some kind or other, and
the thing would justify your disapprobation--expressed in few words
or many. If, on the other hand, the work is what it professes to be,
it will certainly claim your approval. Yours sincerely, W. Carpenter.