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My dear friend Never have I been so much astonished as I have been at reading your letter to Victor, and which I feel myself bound to answer at once. In the first place you must have been most unmercifully misled by the mutual friend" of whom you speak, when saying that through that individual you did undersand? that I never used your name as a coadjutor in the lon? which is now publishing on the Quadrepeds of North America under the names of Both I & you. why you should have taken such a report or saying as mith is actually beyond my most remote? thought, and again why did you not long ago, write to me at once on this mystinond? subject. But K put an end to all this stuff, let me unclear? you that nothing of the kind has ever take place, and this I could well prove by upwards of one hundred of our last Subscribers, all of whom would be ready to testify that before receiving their name on my list. I always mentioned your name & each of them and many that know you were glad that I had unclear? and so learned a man at my elbow?. I should amazingly be glad to know who the "mutual friend" is, and think I could give him a lesson in propriety, being a mutual friend that would serve that kind gentleman