
Many thanks for your two enclosures of printed extracts &c. I wrote to Mr. Buchanan
about his plan of forming a society for the circulation of your works, but he has not given me very definite
information of what is intended;
meanwhile for the time I have been absorbed by the news of the death of one of my brothers in India. This
brings with it the additional pang to me that it will probably prevent my intended journey to the States
this Summer. I had made all arrangements, and was carried forward on the hope of seeing you, and now I am
greatly disappointed.

I must ask instead that you will send me your two volumes when ready—two
copies of each—I am anxious to see them. Please forward them as soon as you can to me at
45 Brunswick Square, Brighton. I have got a P.O.O for £4
wh. I enclose; I was trusting
to what I think Robert Buchanan said that £1 was the price per vol.,
but I do not feel sure this is right as $5 would be more than that. However you will let me know if there is
any excess due to you & I will forward the sum. It is difficult for us in England to know what is the truth
among all the conflicting reports. I hope that the latest namely that you are not suffering from any immediate want
is the right one, tho' I feel that you must often be under
some pressure of difficulty. Of one thing
I am sure—from internal evidence so to speak—namely that your books have never been a source
of profit to you—tho' they may have been to others