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CORRESPONDENCE. 
To Mr. Bracy Clark. 
46, Grove Street, Camden Town, 
14th Dec. 1836. 
Sir, — By the earliest post on Monday last I sent you a letter, 
in which I required to be informed whether you were the author 
of a communication in “ The Centaur” of the 10th inst., signed 
* t Clemens and whether you applied to me, personally, certain 
language contained in that communication. I have not yet re- 
ceived an answer, although there has been more than sufficient 
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time for it. 
Permit me to remind you of the propriety and necessity of an 
immediate reply. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
W. Youatt. 
To Bracy Clark, Esq. 
Veterinary Infirmary, Giltspur Street, 
Dec. 13th, 1836. 
(Post Mark 14th). 
Sir, — I have just been shewn by my uncle, Mr. Bracy Clark, 
a letter which he received yesterday from you, and also an 
answer which he had written to it (which you may see if you 
please), couched in highly indignant and by no means compli- 
mentary language, although without disclosing my name. But, 
as I am the writer of the letter signed “ Clemens” in last week’s 
“ Centaur,” I take leave to answer your note myself; and to ob- 
serve respecting the language you complain of, that it was in- 
tended, evidently enough, to characterize the public conduct of 
The Veterinarian as a Journal, and that it would be absurd 
to suppose it had reference, personally, to any one of the four 
avowed editors of that periodical. I should really have thought 
that you had been too long engaged in these affairs to be igno- 
rant of the perfect right of any individual to express such an 
opinion of a joint publication like the present : but I now re- 
collect that, some years ago, you wrote me a similar letter ; only, 
on that occasion, there was no language to complain of; but you 
wished an explanation of something I had not said in my pam- 
phlet on the abuses and malpractices at the Veterinary College. 
Perhaps, if the omission marked by asterisks had been filled 
up, it would have amounted to an opinion respecting the cha- 
racter of the Journal in question but little different from that 
expressed in my letter to “ The Centaur,” which I have no desire 
to disclaim. 
