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 things are in a vagrant condition around me. But I wished not to defer answering your letter to an uncertain opportunity

"My husband has said more than once that he feels grateful to you. For he is more sensitive on my behalf than on his own.

"Always yours faithfully, "M. E. ."

"October 12, ’77. ",—I trust it will not be otherwise than gratifying to you to know that your stirring article on Daniel Deronda' is now translated into English by a son of Professor Ferrier, who was a philosophical writer of considerable mark. It will be issued in a handsomer form than that of the pamphlet, and will appear within this autumnal publishing season, Messrs. Blackwood having already advertised it. Whenever a copy is ready we shall have the pleasure of sending it to you. There is often something to be borne with in reading one's own writing in a translation, but I hope that in this case you will not be made to wince severely.

"In waiting to send you this news I seem to have deferred too long the expression of my warm thanks for your kindness in sending me the Hebrew translations of Lessing and the collection of Hebrew poems, a kindness which I felt myself rather presumptuous in asking for, since your time must be filled with more important demands. Yet I must further beg you, when you have an opportunity, to assure Herr Bacher that I was most gratefully touched by the sympathetic verses with which he enriched the gift of his work.

"I see by your last letter to my husband that your Theological Seminary was to open on the 4th of this