The Athenæum's editor, Charles Wentworth Dilke
, commissioned a reply that was attributed to the president of the Royal College of Surgeons
, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie
. The response argued that HM
was...
Publishing
Harriet Martineau
After a skirmish with Dilke
over whether the Athenæum could claim copyright on the letters, HM
, who had accepted no payment from him, published them in book form with Moxon
.