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LETTER 35 (Fragment)
To REVELL PHILLIPS
Zurich 1833 Decr 18th
MY DEAR PHILLIPS,--I beg you to present my best compliments to Mrs.
R. Phillips for her kind message: I am afraid our friend Kelsall was
guilty of putting me into the Athenĉum. It is of as little
consequence as possible, but curious enough that those lines of which
I imagined that I had burnt the only copy some years ago in
Gottingen, should nevertheless have gained the light of letter press
in London. I wish they had been more worthy of it.
With all deference to the opinion of Mrs. R. Phillips and all thank's
for her kind partiality, I cannot help thinking that every able
bodied person, capable of what's called tuning the lyre to all manner
of ballads &c who spares the much annoyed reading public his possible
and impossible productions, is entitled to some sort of
acknowledgment for his rare forbearance.
I believe that the London publishers are extremely unwilling to
publish translations of foreign medical works: nevertheless I should
wish much to know whether no one would undertake the printing of
one which is destined to appear at Easter, Schoenlien's Natural
History of the diseases of Europeans--it will consist of about 6
vols of which 1 or 2 will come out in the Spring--Sch: is perhaps the
most distinguished of German Physicians, (now professor here,
banished by that ingenious Jack-a-napes of Bavaria) & his work is
destined to attract the attention of the medical men of all nations.
I know both him and German, and should wish to render the literature
of my country a service by translating the book--for the MSS of the
first volume I would require nothing but cannot afford anything more
than the trouble. I know that the book must be sooner or later
Englished, I do not expect that any bookseller will take my offer and
so in the end it will be done like most of the Anglo-German things of
the kind by some one only half acquainted with the language as an
exercise.
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