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Melbourne
Aug 17.06
My dear Howitt,
My time was too fully occupied today until I reached home to go through you Folk Lore paper again. It is conclusive and convincing & no wonder that our mutual friend (?) is alarmed & distressed.
But really his letter to the papers is utterly inadequate & for the sake of putting matters on a proper footing you really must publish all of your critique otherwise we shall be no better off & the public will think that he is justified in what he has written! I can only tackle him on a matter of 'guess-work' or
