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therefore, I have most respectfully, and regretfully, in- 
scribed it. 
Desiring that the responsibility for what has been done 
should rest with me, I have avoided saying anything about 
the book while it was in progress to any of Mr Tylor’s 
family or representatives. They know nothing, therefore, 
of its contents, and if they did, would probably feel with 
myself very uncertain how far it is right to use Mr. Tylor’s 
name in connection with it. I can only trust that, on the 
whole, they may think I have done most rightly in adhering 
to the letter of my promise. 
October 15, 1886. 
