The life and letters of Herbert Spencer . it makes. As you willsee, he clearly does not understand the nature of the loss whichled me to issue the notice—he thinks that it is nothing morethan the difference between the receipts from the subscribersand the cost of printing ; and that were the bare expenses ofpublication met I should have no difficulty in going on. I haveexplained to him how the matter stands. Williams and Norgate hinted to me the other day that therewas a movement in progress to do something that would meetthe case in a way that I could agree to. I learn also thatJohn Mill has
The life and letters of Herbert Spencer . it makes. As you willsee, he clearly does not understand the nature of the loss whichled me to issue the notice—he thinks that it is nothing morethan the difference between the receipts from the subscribersand the cost of printing ; and that were the bare expenses ofpublication met I should have no difficulty in going on. I haveexplained to him how the matter stands. Williams and Norgate hinted to me the other day that therewas a movement in progress to do something that would meetthe case in a way that I could agree to. I learn also thatJohn Mill has called upon them since he got my reply to hisletter. To E. L. 2 March, Limburg Stirum . . one of Comtes executors, haswritten to Lewes, sending through him to me a draft for £\0towards a publication fund, and proposing to form a committeefor the furtherance of the matter, and wishes that the Fort-nightly Rcvieiv should make itself the organ for carrying out Note.—Autobiography, ii., chaps, xlii., xliii., 1865-67] Sunshine and Shadow 127 such a plan. Of course, in pursuance of the attitude I havetaken up, I returned him the draft, explaining how mattersstood. A proposal that came from some of his friends that thoseinterested should subscribe for a sufficient number ofcopies to secure the author from loss, was not so easilydisposed of. To T. H. HuxLFY. 11 /4/)/-/7, 1866. My reflections over the matter of our talk the other nighthave ended in a qualified agreement to the arrangements—anagreement under conditions. In the first place, as to the number of copies to be is too great. I do not know how 250 was fixed upon. . .Thus, then, I conclude that an extra circulation here of 150will suffice, joined with what I may otherwise fairly countupon. And to this number, I should wish that the additionalcopies taken may be limited. In the second place, as you say that the wishes to furtherthe continuance of the work have, in the main, acted spon
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