New Haven Sept^r 19, 1844

My dear sir,

Having just directed to you an original letter of yourself 1835 and invited your attention to a passage in it, I now add a few remarks in regard to your late letter of the 16^th.

Although the Journal was already more than full we could not think of placing you in an appendix as you ought to appear in close sequence after your antagonist.

I saw nothing in your reply which I felt authorized to alter except to substitute no for ‘feather,’ the latter having what you did not intend, a contentious bearing.

 I did not feel at liberty to alter the spirit of D^r. Deane’s piece although I did suggest an omission of the same kind as above alluded to & for the same [reason], & it was done. I should prefer to have you say ‘as by a friend;’ rather ‘friends’ in the plural number for if I have been in any degree auxiliary to what gives you so much pain, it was certainly unwittingly and without any thought