Beltsville, Md
10th March '86

E.C. Brown, Esqr
Your note of the 8th is at
hand and as there is no time like the
present is answered at once.
As requested I enclosed a copy
of the Sunday Herald, which you
will be good enough to return. I
think I wrote you something of its
history but it explains itself fairly.
I might have added the fact that
my friend Steedman had returned
my letter on the "physiology of be-
lief" unopened - actually not know-
ing a good thing when he held
it in his hands! I felt in-
dignant at the time but at the
request of Admiral Rodgers put
the paper in my desk after pre-
paring it for publication, and