Letter from Francis P. Matthews to the President's Committee on Civil Rights, with a Reply from Philleo Nash

matthews November 26, 1947. s ARCHIVES **NATICMAL SERVICE" RECORDS Dear Mr. Matthews: I have your letter of November 12th and have been searching for S one means by which I could get you the 58 copies you asked for. The 25,000 copies printed for general distribution have been completely exhausted, and I have no source to which I can go for the copies you requested. The reason you, together with each of the other Committee members, received only 42 copies was that there was no source from which to draw the 100 copies the Committee voted for each member, except the cloth-bound volumes. There were not 1,500 of these, and we divided up what there were among each Committee member on a-share and share alike basis. The original distribution of the 25,000 free copies included ,000 to names submitted by Committee members. The Government Printing Office is receiving a large number of orders and is running off additional copies to meet them. If you want me to place an order for 58 copies for you, I will be glad to do it and see that they are shipped out to you promptly. Sincerely yours, PHILLEO NASH Assistant to David K. Niles Mr. Francis P. Matthews, Insurance Building, Omaha 2, Nebraska.