Dear Physical Review Letters:

RE: LC8573

Find below our response to the comments of the Referees. Referee
 B did not suggest any changes.



Referee A

Point 1:

 We have clarified in the abstract that the word "first" refers to the 
 first time a solid polarized target has been used to measure GEn, as follows 

"We report the first ever measurement using a solid polarized target of the
 neutron electric form factor \gen
 via $\vec{d}(\vec{e},e'n)p$. \gen was...."

Point 2:

We believe that adding this level of detail is not especially productive 
in a PRL. 


However, we report the following for the referee.

The Monte Carlo estimates of the data rates were multiplied by a factor
to account for effects beyond PWIA (and for any spectroscopic factor)
for all species. This was done, in the case of carbon, by using results
from an (e,e'p) experiment on carbon at at momentum transfer of
0.5 Gev^2 (\cite{D. Van Westrum, "Quasielastic (e,e'p) Reactions and Proton
Propgation through Nuclei", Ph.D. Thesis, University of Colorado, 1998}. 
The experimental results for carbon were applied to  nitrogen and scaled
for aluminum. For He4, an estimate was obtained from a Glauber style calculation
using n-p and n-n inelastic cross sections.  For deuteron, the Monte Carlo utilized
directly (e,e'n) cross sections from Arenhoevel's full calculations,
which accounts for effects beyond the PWIA.

The overall factors applied to the MC rates to account for effects
beyond PWIA were:

	Species	Factor
	D		1
	He		0.85
	N		0.55
	Al		0.5
	
Subsequently, the normalization of the MC to data was achieved by 
a single number for all species.


3) We have explained the filled square in the caption of figure 3.

4) We have evaluated the polarized data set for GEn and give the results 
of our fit in the text and show the results in figure 3.  As we point
 out in the text the use of Galster 5.6 in the analysis does not bias
  significantly our results as the range of Q^2 is quite small.

5) We have updated reference 23 (and 13).
	
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