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whoever reprints here. You are to remember and provide 

 for this fact, that all our magazines are published two 

 weeks before date. The July magazine is in the market 

 the middle of June. . . . There is a furious attack upon 

 you in the Catholic World, under the title The Cosmic 

 Philosophy. The New Englander is also out with an on- 

 slaught, so there seems no danger that the Philosophy will 



be neglected. 



NEW YORK, January 2g, 1872. 



MY DEAR SPENCER : 1 have been sorely tried about the 

 periodical. The Appletons are perfectly willing and per- 

 fectly indifferent. I have so much to do that I do not like 

 to court responsibility. 



To get your articles would be a powerful incentive to 

 immediate action. On the other hand, there ought to be 

 deliberate systematic preparations, and it is also greatly 

 advantageous to start January ist. Other work besides 

 must be done. So unless the wind changes suddenly and 

 soon, we shall have no magazine this year. 



What impels me to write to-day is that I have ascer- 

 tained the time conditions of the issue of your articles on 

 this side. To get a favourable insertion (in place I mean) 

 each article must be here six weeks before the date of its 

 appearance. For May it must be here by the middle of 

 March must be sent by the ist of March. I have, of 

 course, made no arrangements as yet, but am able to give 

 you the conditions on which depend the market value of 

 your articles, and indeed the only conditions on which they 

 can appear in any American periodical at all. I am still 

 anxious about the phraseology of your letter. The Con- 

 temporary pays you for the English constituency. I know 

 they cannot afford to pay for the lead in America, or what 

 you would lose by leaving your articles with them. You 

 say that they stipulate that you shall not so dispose of the 

 article as to interfere with them. But the thing paid for 

 here is priority. 



