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37 QUEEN'S GARDENS, BAYSWATER, W., February 23, 1867. 



MY DEAR YOUMANS: I think you are right in your sug- 

 gestion as to the impolicy of further investment in Ameri- 

 can securities for the present. Any balance that may be 

 due to me from the forthcoming account may as well, there- 

 fore, be transmitted to me here. 



March nth. You were saying when over here that you 

 thought the time was coming when we might recommence 

 the issue of the serial in the United States. I doubt, how- 

 ever, whether it would be worth while. Our subscription 

 list here has just been gone through for the purpose of 

 giving a peremptory reminder to those in arrear. I find 

 there is not far short of two hundred pounds sterling due. 

 Possibly the intimation that has been given, that no further 

 numbers will be sent to those whose last two subscriptions 

 are unpaid, will have its effect. But I foresee that, if things 

 go on as they have been doing, it will be needful to give 

 up the issue in parts by the time the Psychology is com- 

 pleted. The trouble and loss will no longer be compen- 

 sated by the gain. You will be startled in America, as 

 people are being startled here, by the marvellously sudden 

 change of opinion that is taking place in our political world. 

 The phenomenon reminds one of that which takes place 

 with ice when much below the freezing point. You go on 

 raising its temperature for a long time without any appre- 

 ciable effect, and then all at once it begins to thaw rapidly. 

 Doubtless in the same way a change has been going on 

 here without producing any sign ; and now it is making 

 itself visible all at once. 



I shall be glad to hear of your doings, and also of your 

 plans for the summer. I hope we shall be able so to man- 

 age as to have a sojourn in Paris together. 



Ever yours truly, HERBERT SPENCER. 



