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sense of obligation. Certainly, if the matter is to be viewed 

 in the light of debit and credit, the indebtedness will be 

 mainly on the side of your friends. My chief purpose 

 in this affair was not to raise funds, for, although the 

 publishers would not risk the issue of the essays, I could 

 readily have done so, as there is really no risk to run. 

 There will be no difficulty in this volume at least paying 

 expenses. 



But I wanted active co-operation, and therefore took 

 steps to personally commit a few gentleman of wealth and 

 influence persons who appreciated and acted upon the 

 public bearings of the case to an interest in the under- 

 taking. I of course did not hesitate to state that your 

 English publications did not prove remunerative, but I 

 explicitly disavowed this consideration as the motive of 

 my efforts. Nevertheless your requirement shall be faith- 

 fully complied with, and, with this assurance, pray dis- 

 miss all solicitude and leave us to work out our mission, 

 using your tools and paying as fairly as may be for their 

 use. I like the new title very much. The work is in 

 the printers' hands, and will be finished in less than a 

 month. 



29 BLOOMSBURY SQUARE, LONDON, W. C., January j, 1864. 



MY DEAR YOUMANS: I did not include the essay on 

 The Philosophy of Style, because it does not in any mani- 

 fest way illustrate evolution. A further reason for not 

 including it is, that if there should be a second volume of 

 essays issued in case the first succeeds it is desirable that 

 some of the more interesting articles should be reserved 

 for it. ... 



I have not yet heard from the two Cambridge students 

 whom you name. I shall be very glad to do so ; your 

 account of them is very encouraging, and they are evi- 

 dently adherents well worth having. The article on the 

 Evolution of Language interested me much, showing, as it 



