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Excerpt from Gross Literary Fraud Exposed: Relating to the Publication of Worcester's Dictionary in London; Together With Three Appendixes; Including the Answer of S. Converse to an Attack on Him
Gentlemen, The fact that an edition of my Univer sal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language, with a false title and a garbled and mutilated preface, has been published in London, has recently come to my knowl edge; and I have had some correspondence on the subject with Mr. Wilkins, of the late firm of Wilkins, Carter, 65 Co., the original publishers of the Dictionary. As you are now the publishers of it, I send this correspondence to you, together with a correction of some false state ments relating to myself, which the publishers of Dr. 'webster's Dictionary have made and circulated very widely, with a request that you will get these matters printed and put in circulation, in order that this literary fraud may be exposed. I am sorry to have occasion to make such a request; but it seems proper that some thing should be done; and it is my wish that such a course may be adopted as may tend to set matters right, as far as the case admits.
I do not wish any thing ever to be said or done, in order to promote the circulation of my literary publications, that is not in strict accordance with truth and propriety, or that can give reasonable offence to any one. The world is wide enough, and the demand for useful books sufficient, to give employment to all literary laborers, who make use of proper means for preparing books which will promote the improvement of society; and I see no good reason for hostile contention between those who make such books, or between those who sell them.
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