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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 you that nothing of the kind has