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injustice of our copyright law, your friends have resolved 

 that you shall not be the loser. They accept Mr. Apple- 

 ton's proposal and will furnish him the stereotype plates, 

 while he pledges himself to pay you double the usual copy- 

 right, or twenty per cent upon the sales. This arrange- 

 ment, as I wrote you, refers to the Essays, and we are now 

 ready and anxious to go forward with the book, and only 

 wait to hear from you respecting revision. . . . 



I promised in my former letter to give you some further 

 particulars of my recent visit East. It was undertaken, as 

 I mentioned before, with a view to concerting measures 

 with those who are interested in your works, for bringing 

 them before the public, and the result was in a high degree 

 encouraging to your prospects. I found everywhere a 

 deep interest in your writings (though in some cases but a 

 partial mastery of them), and a desire to learn of your 

 personal welfare as if they had been old friends. I was 

 heartily thanked for offering them an opportunity of doing 

 something to promote the circulation of your writings, and 

 I think an important effect of the course taken will be to 

 secure additional attention and more prominent notice of 

 future publications. 



At Bangor, Me., I made the acquaintance of the Rev. 

 Charles Carroll Everett, a Unitarian clergyman of large 

 liberality and with a fine reputation for ability and scholarly 

 attainments, who was the author of the review of First Prin- 

 ciples in the Christian Examiner. He is a thorough student 

 of your various writings, and much in sympathy with their 

 spirit and aims. A brother parson was rallying him a while 

 since on his endorsing a philosophy which began without 

 God and ended without freedom. He replied "that these 

 first generalizations of Spencer's are only the emerging 

 peaks of the rising continent." 



At Portland, Me., I met the Rev. Horatio Stebbins, who 

 had been with great reluctance induced by Mr. Alger, of 



