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[Letter of Francis William Newman to Dr. Chapman] 7 PVE., My dear Sir, Since writing my article on India I have read anew that in the last number of the Westminster. I find that I had in memory confused the latter part of it with the Indian article in the National,—to which I am in intense antagonism,—& by imputing to the latter (in my mind) some of the sentences of the former, I became unaware how disagreeably I was contradicting views already expressed in the Westminster. I now therefore suggest that you should . . . not exactly disown my article, but write an editorial note to the following effect: [Attentive readers will see that the views taken in this Article are not always identical with those of our last number. In events so recent, three months add sensibly to our information, & to the opportunity of calm combination; and truth is best attained by allowing the free expression of minds which, desiring the same great ends, cannot always agree.] Editor. If you add such a note, I should feel free to improve the argument, by working into the text one or two notes, on which I laid less stress than my own judgment desired, because I did not wish to come into too prominent collision with the former article— I am glad you like my other— Sincerely yours,
P.S. It would be silly in me not to advertise all my books in the page pasted into the two others, while I am about it;—just as at the end of my "Theism", only not with specimens of Homer & Horace which would be lengthy. Now I think of it, I should like to study what would go in. I will try to prepare a paper of suitable length for it.
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