Autograph letter signed : London, to William Angus Knight, 1881 November 6.

Relating news of Dr. Martineau; saying "He is as hostile as ever to any form of the evolution hypothesis (this was to be expected - I mean in its application to morals), but had no difficulty in penetrating the joints of Mr. Spencer's armour. His vigour, both of thought and delivery, is amazing at 76;" asking if Knight might be in possession of three volumes of the manuscripts of his Ethics lectures which he believes were loaned to him and if so could he return them for his wife to use while she is taking a class; reporting that they had a good trip to Norway and that he is now "...trying to work out some bits of my course on the psychology of different types of religion, & am in the midst of a huge mass of Catholic theology. Can you tell me of any book on the philosophy of merit? This is of course a very prominent idea, & I do not find it adequately treated in the ordinary manuals of moral theology. I asked Dr. Martineau, & he replied almost in the words of the immortal Mr. Brooke, that 'he had gone into it himself once & written upon it, but he had forgotten altogether the books he had employed;" expressing his hope that Knight's Philosophical Series is doing well and telling him that he "...sent a set over to a little English club in Transylvania, formed out of some Hungarian students who had been at M.N.C. & their friends, & they were much appreciated."