H. Waller, Esq.
Manor Road, Upper Holloway,
Jan. 13, 1852.
My dear Sir,
I have procured your Lecture, and read the statement which led to our correspondence, together with the note which you have subjoined as the result of it.
I cannot but feel surprised at the character of that note. There has been such an acknowledgment, on your part, of doubt on the subject, that I think I was justified in expecting some reference to it, and to the grounds of it, and then, either an admission of continued doubt, or, if so it be, a statement of the considerations which removed it. Under all the circumstances I feel that, should I think proper to do so, I shall be justified in giving publicity to the correspondence which has taken place. Very deeply lamenting its most painful issue,
I remain, dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
Henry Waller.
Rev. Edward Hoare.
Hampstead,
Jan. 16th, 1852.
My dear Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 13th, forwarded to me from Ramsgate, I think it due to myself to inform you that I had nothing whatever to do with any portion of the note in question, except the passage extending to the end of the Latin quotation, which is exactly what I told you in my last letter I intended to insert. The remainder was added through a very great mistake on the part of —, but it was not in the copy which I transmitted to the press, and I was as much surprised as you were when I saw it in the published lecture.