[London,] 13 October 1884 

In great haste. The sheets have been returned to Dietz after resto- 
ration of h, tz and the botched foreign words.?°! Wrote telling 

Dietz °° that both of you* had protested and that I had concurred 
and had made the above-mentioned reinstatements in agreement 
with you. I would, I said, no more have spelling imposed upon me 
than I would a woman and hence if the proofs were not corrected in 
accordance with my demands, I should 1) call for the deletion of all 
my notes and 2) not provide a preface,” as I couldn’t possibly have 
two kinds of spelling for my stuff. 

Do you really not wish to put your names on the title page as trans- 
lators? The title should in any case be so worded that I simply appear 
as the author of the notes and preface unless you expressly insist on 
the revision mentioned, though I consider this quite unnecessary. 

Another whole day has been wasted thanks to these asininities. 
Right in the middle of election time,!°* what’s more. 

Your 
F. E.