On April 6th I sent the following letter to Dr. Kuyper (registered).

     April 6th, 1900.

     SIR,

In a few days I shall have finished my replies to your article; they will then be published in pamphlet form.  I have the honour to ask you definitely whether you accept my proposal to precede them with your article in the Revue des Deux Mondes.

YVES GUYOT.

In answer to this I received the following letter from Dr. Kuyper written from the Grand Hotel, Paris: 

         GRAND HOTEL,
     12, BOULEVARD DES CAPUCINES,
       April 12th, 1900.

SIR,

My last letter informed you to what extent I could meet your
wishes.

Now that, without regard to my reply, you simply ask for the authorisation to print my article in a pamphlet which you propose to publish, I can only refer you to the person who has the power to dispose of the copyright.

     KUYPER.

I was under the impression that I had acted in accordance with the reply of Dr. Kuyper, who in his letter, March 28th, wrote:  “The copyright of my article belongs to the Editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, without whose permission I can do nothing.  As I shall be in Paris before long I will ask him for it should your polemics seem to me to require a reply.”

But since Mr. Kuyper withdrew from the correspondence I wrote the following letter to Mr. Brunetiere, Editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes: 

     April 13th, 1900.

     TO THE EDITOR, SIR,

     In the Revue des Deux Mondes, February 1st, an article was
     published by Dr. Kuyper under the title of “La Crise
     Sud-Africaine.”

I have published a criticism upon it in Le Siecle; and in order that both sides of the question may be presented to the reader, I have asked Dr. Kuyper’s authorisation to reproduce his article in a pamphlet in which I purpose to collect my own.

On March 28th, Dr. Kuyper wrote me:  “The copyright of my article belongs to the editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, without whose permission I can do nothing.  As I shall be in Paris before long I will ask him for it, should your polemic attack seem to me to require a reply.”

To-day Dr. Kuyper writes to me from the Grand Hotel, Paris:  “I can only refer you to the person who has the power to dispose of the copyright.”  Since I am asked by Dr. Kuyper to make the request which he had undertaken to make himself, I will do so.  I have the honour to ask you for the authorisation to publish Dr. Kuyper’s article which appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes under the title of “La Crise Sud-Africaine,” and to inform me of your conditions for the reproduction.

     YVES GUYOT.

IV.  M. BRUNETIERE’S REFUSAL.