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however, for which I hope I have soon -
I understand from a lady of my acquaintance
(Miss Busley ?) - that your brother Mr J. A. L - is
a german scholar who was at one time
deeply interested in German literature.
I wish you would tell him of a thing that
has come into my head (for no one else is respon-
sible for [ ?ing] to the thought) - There is a
son of Prof Hedge of Cambridge who was edu-
cated in Germany. He went there at 12 years
of age & received his classical education & the
first developments of his mind there. - When
he returned here he passed a year or two
in our college - [entered ?] divinity & settled
here as a minister. For the last few years
he has been in Bangor. Perhaps your brother
knows all about him. He has the singular
advantage of being brought up in both
literatures - and [so man ?] of genius & of
taste - being au fait in both. One of the [best has ?]
proof of his powerful mind is - that although
he can write & even think in German with
as much ease as in English - his English is
so [?] & idiomatic that it bears no
mark of foreign [ad ? ture ?]- & his train
of thought is decidedly English - as well
as his taste. Several years ago I hard him say
he had a mind to deliver in Boston some
courses of lectures on German literature - taking up
all the great artists in succession giving biogra-
phical sketches - criticisms - & accounts of their
works - & then perhaps giving the history of their
philosophy in the same way. He then thought
however that there was not quite enough curios-
ity awakened of [ ?] there was some risk in
abandoning his professor for it. I heard yes-
terday that he was here - and about having Ban-
gor (although the people there are very unwilling)
for indispensable reasons - & was probably about
to seek for a new parish. It struck me that here
might be an interruption as it were in his clerical
life - & now curiosity is so completely awake concerning
German literature & philosophy - that it wont be
a good time for those same lectures - and I could
not but wish that your brother knew all about it.
O course I do not expect that my opinion will weigh
any thing on the subject with your brother who is a