[Draft] {London,] 23 October 1856 

Dear Sir, 

Having been absent from London during the last month, and 
seeing that your paper professed to be wanting space, I have 
deferred the continuation of my articles until to day. In 
transmitting the inclosed new manuscript it occurs to me that, 
from the difference in size between the old and new Free Press,?° 
it would be desirable to come to a new understanding as to 
the terms on which my contributions to your paper are to take 
place. 

In answer to your last letter I have to state that it is indifferent 
to me whether you reprint the old pamphlets in large or small type, 
but as to documents never before published I consider it would be 
spoiling the case to put them in small type. Concerning the alleged 
desirability of my own comments not taking the form of notes, you 
will see that this is being done only where really expedient, and 
that under the form of introductions to the different chapters they 
occupy already the space of the text. Lastly as to the suggestion of 
drawing parallelisms between the epoch I treat upon and the 
present time, it has been anticipated to a certain extent in the 
chapters you published. To trace systematically these parallelisms 
more would be altering my plan, which is rather to give new 
materials for a new history, than new reflections on well-known 
materials. To satisfy the wants of his readers in that respect I hold 
to be rather the duty of the editor.