brothers may approve some portions of it; may be curious
to see it reprinted; you ought to say Yes or No in regard to
that. I think I will send all the sheets together; or at
farthest, at two times.

Fraser, when we returned hither, had already received his
_Miscellanies;_ had about despatched his five hundred _French
Revolutions,_ insured and so, forth, consigned, I suppose, to
your protection and the proper booksellers; probably they have
got over from New York into your neighborhood before now. Much
good may they do you! The _Miscellanies,_ with their variegated
binding, proved to be in perfect order; and are now all sold;
with much regret from poor James that we had not a thousand more
of them! This thousand he now sets about providing by his own
industry, poor man; I am revising the American copy in these
days; the printer is to proceed forthwith. I admire the good
Stearns Wheeler as I proceed; I write to him my thanks by this
post, and send him by Kennet a copy of Goethe's _Meister,_ for
symbol of acknowledgment. Another copy goes off for you, to the
care of Little and Company. Fraser has got it out two weeks ago;
a respectable enough book, now that the version is corrected
somewhat. Tell me whether you dislike it less; what you do
think of it? By the by, have you not learned to read German now?
I rather think you have. It is three months spent well, if ever
months were, for a thinking Englishman of this age.--I hope
Kennet will use more despatch than he sometimes does. Thank
Heaven for these Boston Steamers they project! May the Nereids
and Poseidon favor them! They will bring us a thousand miles
nearer, at one step; by and by we shall be of one parish
after all.

During Autumn I speculated often about a Hegira into New England
this very year: but alas! my horror of _Lecturing_ continues
great; and what else is there for me to do there? These several
years I have had no wish so pressing as to hold my peace. I
begin again to feel some use in articulate speech; perhaps I
shall one day have something that I want to utter even in your
side of the water. We shall see. Patience, and shuffle the
cards.--I saw no more of Webster; did not even learn well where
he was, till lately I noticed in the Newspapers that he had gone
home again. A certain Mr. Brown (I think) brought me a letter
from you, not long since; I forwarded him to Cambridge and
Scotland: a modest inoffensive man. He