Sir:—Believing that the publication of the Directory, as above proposed, would be advantageous to our business community, I have taken the liberty to have this forwarded to you.

The result of our labors is now tangibly before the public. We are not afraid to let that result
speak for itself. in producing the present volume we have had to encounter many difficulties
greater than ordinarily falls to the lot of a Directory publisher. in the larger cities of the
continent the publisher has, it is true, to father the errors, omissions, and imperfections
caused by the indifferent, the impudent and the ignorant citizens, who, careless in their
replies, impudent and rude in their manner, or ignorant citizens, who, careless in their
replies, impudent and rude in their manner, or ignorant of the importance of the work,
impede or mislead the canvasser in obtaining the information. He has also to assume the repon-
sibility of the mistaken made by from forty to fifty canvassers, by from fifteen to twenty typeset-
ters, and the oversights of three to four proofreaders. All this we have to bear in common with
all our brother publishers, but in this city we have had more to contend against; we have had to
overcome the stolid indifference of the men who "don’t care whether their name is in the