“Dear Sir,—I am much more obliged by your courteous and welcome note than you can be to me for a comment that was merely just. It was, indeed, on the niggardly side of justice; but it was hurriedly done, and many occupations during the following week left me no leisure to resume the subject.
“I assure you it would afford me no slight gratification to settle this delicate balance of obligation by personal conference, and
