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 jsT.25.] TO R. W. EMERSON. 71

it takes a good many words to supply the place of one deed ; a hundred lines to a cobweb, and but one cable to a man-of-war. The &quot; Dial &quot; case needs to be reformed in many particulars. There is no news from Wheeler, none from Bartlett.

They all look well and happy in this house, where it gives me much pleasure to dwell.

Yours in haste, HENRY.

P. S.

Wednesday evening, February 16.

DEAR FRIEND, I have time to write a few words about the &quot; Dial.&quot; I have just received the three first signatures, which do not yet com plete Lane s piece. He will place five hundred copies for sale at Munroe s bookstore. Wheeler has sent you two full sheets more about the German universities and proper names, which will have to be printed in alphabetical order for convenience ; what this one has done, that one is doing, and the other intends to do. Ham- mer-Purgstall (Von Hammer) may be one, for aught I know. However, there are two or three tilings in it, as well as names. One of the books of Herodotus is discovered to be out of place. He says something about having sent to Lowell, by the last steamer, a budget of lit erary news, which he will have communicated to