[474] All would ask you to come home as soon as you can make convenient and becoming arrangements to do so. And how you will be received! . . . .
To Sir Edmund Head.
Boston, January 30, 1866.my dear Head,—I should have written to you earlier, I suppose, but I have been ill. . . . . However, the doctors have patched me up, so that I am well enough for 74-5. At least, I am as well off as the eidolon of Branca d'oria, and, perhaps, as hollow. E mangia, e bee, e dorme, e veste panni. We shall see. Among other things that I missed while I was in this ‘interlunar cave,’ I failed to see your Icelandic translation, in Frazer, till yesterday. I sent for it three times; but, as so often happens, I did not get it till I went for it myself. But I have been paid for my trouble. I enjoyed it very much, and have become eager to see more, of which I find a notice in the ‘Times,’ that came to me a few days ago. Meanwhile, I want the title of Bechstein's ‘Deutsches Lesebuch,’ so that I can order it, and read ‘Es stehen die Sterne am Himmel.’ Burger was a miserable scamp; but still I should be sorry to have the credit of Lenore taken away from him. I have always understood that he got the hint for it from hearing a peasant-girl, as she was washing in a clear moonlight night, sing aboutDie Todten reiten schnelle,At least, this was the tradition at Gottingen,—not, perhaps, in the days of Matilda Pottingen, but just half a century ago, when I lived there; and I don't like to have it disturbed, except on very good grounds. . . . . We have just finished reading ‘Lecky’ loud,—by far the most interesting book I have read since poor Buckle's, and more satisfactory than his,—not presumptuous in its generalizations, and safer in its statements of fact. . . . . Yours ever,
Feins Liebchen, grant dir nicht.
To Lady Cranworth.
Boston, U. S. A., December 24, 1866.my dear Lady Cranworth, . . . . Please to tell Lord Cranworth, that, bearing his suggestion in mind, I read ‘Le Conscrit,’ as, in fact, I had run it over when it first came out. It is a very interesting,
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