If you want this, won’t you either have some of your office-folks copy it—or put it in type—at once, so I can have it in the course of 4 or 5 days? I wrote it to read at a private house next week (among other stuff) for the benefit of a charity. If you will send me 2 proofs, I’ll send one to Chatto myself, & write him a soft-spoken letter & mollify him a little, —throu —thoughⒶemendation it is through his own carelessness that he is out too late behind us with the new book & therefore has doubtless lost his English copyright.