Letter of recommendation for Edward Bernays: In reply to your inquiry about Edward L. Bernays, we beg to report that he is engaged in the profession of counsel on public relations and, according to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company’s Policyholders Service Bureau which has made an investigation of the subject, is generally regarded as one of the two outstanding leaders in this field. (See Metropolitan Life Insurance Company’s Policyholders Service Bureau report, June 26, 1928.) His offices occupy part of the forty-third floor of the Irving Trust Company building at One Wall Street. For ten years previous to May 1, 1931, he occupied offices at 9 East 46th Street, New York. He resides in a five-story residence at 8 Washington Square North, on a long-term lease from William Averill Harriman. Mr. Bernays conducts a service of counsel on public relations on a yearly retainer basis, and numbers some of America’s leading industrial organizations among his clients. In view of his fiduciary relations with them, their names are not available, but it is understood that such firms as the Procter and Gamble Company, the American Tobacco Company and others of the same type, have retained him for a long period of time. He is highly spoken of and classed as a man of outstanding ability along the lines of his present activity and, in addition occupies a number of honorary positions, such as chairman of public relations of charity organizations, university groups, and others. He is also well and favorably known at the largest New York bank. Regarding his credit obligations he meets them promptly.