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ter had prevented the writing of letters to Mr. Spen- 

 cer, until he had begun to feel some anxiety about his 

 friend. 



37 Queen's Gardens, Bayswater, London, W., January 2, 1868. 



My dear Youmans : I am beginning to be anxious to 

 hear from you, fearing from your silence that something 

 may have happened. The date of your last letter is August 

 29th — more than four months ago — so that I begin to fear 

 either that my letters have not reached you, or that you 

 have been doing too much and made yourself ill. Pray, 

 let me hear from you. 



I am just now suffering under one of my occasional 

 attacks of greater nervousness than usual, resulting more 

 especially in very bad nights. For the last fortnight I have 

 done very little work, and for the last week none at all. 

 To-morrow I am going off into Gloucestershire, where, if the 

 frost which has now set in lasts, I hope to get some skat- 

 ing, and I count upon this for doing a good deal toward 

 setting me right again. I had hoped to get out the first 

 number of the Psychology by the end of February, but this 

 untoward state, entailing, as it may do, considerable delay 

 beyond what has already occurred renders that achieve- 

 ment impossible. 



37 Queen's Gardens, Bayswater, London, W., January 22, 1868. 



My dear Youmans : Your welcome letter reached me 

 a few hours after I had posted my last to you. I was glad 

 to find that nothing amiss had happened. 



I dare say you were surprised to find that I had not 

 adopted the new title for the serial,* as I proposed. I dis- 

 cussed the matter with both Huxley and Tyndall, and 

 though I do not think that the objections raised were such 

 as to outweigh the manifest advantages, still there doubt- 



* The reference is to the title Synthetic Philosophy, which was 

 adopted somewhat later. 



