Of course this would be very bad.

To be obscure and untalked of is all the comfort that now remains to me.

And he might say things that would be prejudicial to others,--especially to you.

Could this in any way be prevented?
I suppose the papers would publish anything; and you know how greedily people will read slander about those whose names are in any way remarkable.

In my heart I believe he is insane; but it is very hard that one's privacy should be at the mercy of a madman.