Dear Sir,

I am happy to inform you that I have last week forwarded to my Editor in Paris, the end of the copy of the first volume.¹ I am actually expecting the first proofs of the Eigth chapter, and conjecture, for I have not yet received them, that the six first chapters must now be printed and finished, for I have long ago, given the signature for press for them.

As for what concerns the publishing of the first volume separately, I must leave that to your own decision, being a far more competent judge than I can be, of what may be most convenient.² Unless there be peculiar and important motives to do otherwise, I think that in a general manner, it is perhaps better, when it can be done, to publish a work complete, and lay at once the whole subject before the reader, However, what you will decide on the matter, will be done.

I remain, my dear Sir your’s | very respectfully | J J Moulinié

P.S. The french publisher at Paris is: M^r. C. Reinwald, Libraire-Editeur, 15, rue des Saints-Pères.³