I send you herewith galley proofs of the book by which you may learn if you are in sympathy with my presentation of the case. Respectfully yours, HORACE FLETCHER. INDIVIDUAL CO-OPERATION OR What Constitutes an Active Quarantinist Advance copies of _That Last Waif; or, Social Quarantine_, were sent to a large number of persons in different walks of life asking for suggestions relative to practical individual co-operation in promoting a social quarantine worthy of Twentieth Century Ideals, to be in active operation (started), with the complete aim, at the opening of the coming century, January 1st, 1900. The time has been too short since the mailing of the advance copies to remote points to give the entire consensus of opinion. Sufficient suggestions have, however, been received to formulate a plan of individual co-operation, and to suggest the grouping of individuals into organizations for the purpose of a thorough quarantine campaign. The most hopeful signs elicited by the call for suggestions come from the least expected sources. Persons who are themselves under the ban of social disapproval through participation in occupations that are classed "not respectable" by social decree, _jump_ to support the movement, because they best know that cruel conditions of persecution and neglect _do_ exist. They not only have felt the neglect or persecution themselves, but are in touch with it and with the children who now "have no show on earth to be good." This is due to the neglect of society to provide children an opportunity to choose between the good and the bad by supplying adequate infant and progressive character schools as recommended in our appeal. FORMULA 1. The title of the individual shall be _Quarantinist_; all others, not active quarantinists, being classed as _Neglectists_. 2. The insignia of the _Quarantinist Order_ shall be golden yellow (the quarantine color) ground, with the fraction 1/100 on it in black. 3. The contribution of the _Quarantinist_ to the promotion of social quarantine shall be one one-hundredth of his or her time, _each month_, toward assisting people in less fortunate circumstances to favorable conditions; especial attention being given to children as recommended in "That Last Waif; or, Social Quarantine." THE BENEFITS ARE MUTUAL