570 Edward Livingston Youmans. 



desiring money profit out of this American reprint, I beg to say that 

 I did not intend to make any such charge, and I do not believe that 

 I have. I regret the use of any words which produced that impres- 

 sion on you. I am, yours faithfully, 



"FREDERIC HARRISON. 



" P. S. You can use this letter as you think fit. 

 " HERBERT SPENCER, Esq." 



[Standard, June 

 MR. SPENCER AND MR. HARRISON. 



To the Editor of the Standard. 



SIR: The fact that the information to which it refers came 

 through The Standard must be my excuse for asking you to publish 

 the following letter, a copy of which I have inclosed to Mr. Harrison, 

 requesting him to post it after reading it. 



I am, Sir, your obedient servant, HERBERT SPENCER. 



"38 QUEEN'S GARDENS, BAYSWATER, LONDON, W., Juneq. 



" MY DEAR YOUMANS : I returned home last night, and only 

 this morning learned that in The Standard of Saturday last there was, 

 in a telegram from New York, a statement to the effect that Messrs. 

 Appleton decline to destroy the stock and plates of the reprinted con- 

 troversy (as I had telegraphed them to do), on the score that 

 the book would be reprinted by some other publisher. In this ex- 

 pectation they are probably right. But a reprint would necessarily 

 be without the notes ; since these, as implied in your preface, are 

 your copyright in America. Now, though these notes or, at 

 least those which I pointed out as needful are corrections of erro- 

 neous statements of my views, yet, rather than have it supposed that I 

 wished to take any advantage of Mr. Harrison in making such cor- 

 rections, I will submit to the evil of reissue by another publisher 

 without them ; and I therefore repeat the request that the stock and 

 stereoplates may be destroyed, and the loss debited to me. 



" One word respecting the proposal of the Appletons to share the 

 author's profits between Mr. Harrison and myself. If any have at 

 present accrued, or if, in consequence of refusal to do as I have 

 above requested, any should hereafter accrue, then I wish to say 



