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it to be known that I have this propensity. And on 

 this account, if these verses were to appear in the 

 biography, it would require to be without my name, 

 or headed in some such way as ' Memorial verses by 

 a friend.' In this case I should modify any of the 

 lines which might lead to the author being spotted. 



Should you decide against admitting them, I do 

 not think that I should publish them anywhere else, 

 because where such a personality is concerned, inde- 

 pendent publication (without the occasion furnished 

 by the appearance of a biography) might seem pre- 

 sumptuous even on the part of an anonymous writer. 



Yesterday I received a letter from the Frenchman 

 who translated my book on ' Mental Evolution,' ask- 

 ing me to let him know whether he might apply for 

 the translation of the biography. His name is De 

 Varigny, and he does some original work in verte- 

 brate physiology. I think he has done my book very 

 well. 



Yours ever sincerely, 



G. J. EOMANES. 



Can you suggest a subject for a Rede lecture 

 which I have to give in May ? 



