You have
unburdened your own soul in that matter, and if they had been
corrigible, you would have helped a good many more. But I don't expect
that result. The Southern railing at you will be something unequaled,
I suppose. I hear that three of us have the honor of being abused from
day to day already, as most portentous and shocking women, you, Mrs.
Chapman, and myself as (the traveler of twenty years ago). Not only
newspapers, but pamphlets of such denunciation are circulated, I'm
told. I'm afraid now I, and even Mrs. Chapman, must lose our fame, and
all the railing will be engrossed by you. My little function is to
keep English people tolerably right, by means of a London daily paper,
while the danger of misinformation and misreading from the "Times"
continues. I can't conceive how such a paper as the "Times" can fail
to be _better informed_ than it is. At times it seems as if its
New York correspondent was making game of it. The able and excellent
editor of the "Daily News" gives me complete liberty on American
subjects, and Mrs. Chapman's and other friends' constant supply of
information enables me to use this liberty for making the cause better
understood. I hope I shall hear that you are coming. It is like a
great impertinence--my having written so freely about your book: but
you asked my opinion,--that is all I can say. Thank you much for
sending the book to me.
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