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—As you will probably have time, I would suggest the wisdom of showing the Preface to Rintoul. Whether or not it meet his ideas, I have no conception. According to my view, that part of it which relates to contradicting Sidney, should be left out, because I see nothing in Sidney's speech that it is worth while to contradict. Except for some manifestly useful purpose, it is far better that there should be no preface. If you could get Rintoul himself to write a short description of the meeting—a sort of critical estimate of it—that would be very useful.