Now, two days ago came your
letter, and tells me that the good old gods have also inspired
you to send me Chapman's Homer! and that it came--heroes with
heroes--in the same enchanted box. I went to Fields yesterday
and demanded the book. He ignored all,--even to the books he had
already sent me; called Osgood to council, and they agreed that
it must be that all these came in a bog of sheets of Dickens from
Chapman, which was sent to the Stereotypers at Cambridge; and
the box shall be instantly explored. We will see what tomorrow
shall find. As to the duplicates, I will say here, that I have
received two: first, the above-mentioned Vol. II. of _Cromwell;_
and, second, long before, a second copy of _Sartor Resartus,_
apparently instead of the Vol. I. of the _French Revolution,_
which did not come. I proposed to Fields to send back to Chapman
these two duplicates. But he said, "No, it will cost as much as
the price of the books." I shall try to find in New York who
represents Chapman and sells these books, and put them to his
credit there, in exchange for the volumes I lack.
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