The collection contains letters from American publisher G. H. Putnam to Clement Shorter discussing a book he has published (Censorship and the church of Rome, 1906), various journeys in England, a detailed discussion of the terms on which O'Meara's Napoleon should be reprinted, a visit to Thomas Hardy and the Wessex country, permission for reprinting, and discussing an enclosed detailed report from G. P. Putnam's Sons' retail department on Shorter's request for an edition of Walt Whitman.
