A few days later the Advertiser carried Dr. Alvarez's rebuttal to Dr. de Faria's letter in which he countered that he could hardly have thought of offering a partnership to a man he did not know.
A short while after that, The Advertiser published Dr. Alvarez's response to Dr. de Faria's letter, in which he argued that it was unlikely he would have proposed a partnership to someone he had not met.