274 Edward Livingston Youmans. 



Having for the last ten years benefited so greatly by the 

 arrangements you have made with the Appletons on my 

 behalf, which have put me on a footing as good as the 

 American authors, I have the best possible reasons for 

 thinking that the interests of English authors will be sub- 

 served in a very important degree by the success of the 

 negotiations which you have come over here to carry out. 

 Various of my scientific friends who have reaped pecuniary 

 and other advantages from the contracts you have made 

 for them will, I am sure, coincide in this expression of 

 opinion. 



From the conversation I had with Mr. Appleton when 

 he was here recently, it was manifest to me that he was 

 anxious to carry out in his relations with other English 

 authors the same equitable system from which I and some 

 others have gained ; and now that he has given you full 

 powers to make engagements in pursuance of this system 

 I think it very desirable that all should co-operate. Stand- 

 ing so high as the Appletons do, alike in respect to the 

 character of the works they publish and in the extent of 

 their business, it appears to me clear that this system which 

 they are adopting needs only to be known and understood 

 by English authors to be at once accepted by them. 



Pray make use of this letter in any way that will further 

 your negotiations.. Ever yours sincerely, 



Herbert Spencer. 



To which Prof. Huxley added : 



I have read Mr. Spencer's note, and entirely agree with 

 what he has said. T. H. Huxley, 



Then came this additional indorsement: 



Royal Institution, July 5, 1871. 

 My dear Youmans : 1 am equally desirous with my 

 friend Mr. Spencer to do all that is possible to extend and 



