From the first letter: "Would you please tell me if I would be within the law in publishing the banned books with blank spaces for censorable words or phrases, assuming that in the fly leaf it read after this fashion: 'If you are curious about the blank spaces write the author.' . . . I would send him a printed slip giving words or phrases deleted. . . .
"If the above plan is not viable, what of this--? State in the fly-leaf that [the] book is for the serious adult reader only . . . , that blanks were left in order not to incriminate the printer. . . . I would, upon request, write in the missing words in my own hand . . . and thus assume all responsibilities myself.
"In short, I am endeavoring to find a way to defeat a stupid censorship while remaining within the law. Will it work?"
with--Samuel S. Goldberg. Typed Letter, unsigned, a carbon copy of the letter replying to Miller's proposals: "Frankly, as a lawyer, I would veto the proposals . . . . The criminal law appears to be a lot stronger than many people think. . . .
". . . The vicious part of the law is rather the elastic way in which Courts define the word 'Obscene'. I wish I could say that a stupid law can be beaten."