From W. B. Carpenter   17 March 1840

My dear Sir

I have been extremely obliged by your kind letter, of which you will see that I have made use. I think that you will feel interested in some of the extracts from other letters, which I have felt it necessary to print. In consequence of the dogged refusal of the Editor of the M.I.J. to do me justice, either by admitting my own defence, or by qualifying his misstatements, I have been driven to place them before the public in the form of an Advertisement to circulate with the Journal. And as each complaints from grumbling Authors are seldom thought well of by the public, I have thought it necessary to append such testimony as will give additional weight to my own Remarks.

Your account of your attempts to improve the mental condition of your neighbourhood was very interesting to me and my friends. If it were not for the expense of carriage, I should most gladly contribute any little articles \within/ in my reach to your omnium-gatherum

Believe me to remain, Dear Sir, | respectfully & sinc.ly yours | William B. Carpenter