Additional Manuscripts c

Refers to the news - which he read in the Athaenaeum - that a new edition of HS's Methods of Ethics is soon to come out. Informs him that in a revised edition of the History of Morals, which appeared a few months previously, some of his [Lecky's] passages that HS criticised 'have been supported.' States that he mentions this only for HS's own sake, and informs him that he has mentioned in a short preface that '2 or 3 passages in [ ] edition have been expunged'. Offers to have his 'later [production]' sent to HS, if the latter gives him his address.