Gotha, June 15, 1861.
Even at this distance you are not safe from me. My wife
wishes very much to get a copy of the “Confessions of a Medium” and the “Haunted
Shanty,” for translation and insertion in a German periodical.
If you could take the two articles, and split the numbers of
the "Atlantic" so as to make but one, the postage would not be enormous.
If the third article, “Experiences of the A. C.,” should be in type, perhaps
you could include it also. M. thinks the articles will be very striking and
curious to German readers. Thackeray, the other day, told me that he was
completely taken in by my “Confessions.”
We had a rapid and delightful voyage across the Atlantic. I
spent two days in London, but saw no man of note except Thackeray, who was very
kind and very jolly. We found our German relatives in good condition, and are
pleasantly domiciled here for two months. To-morrow I shall leave for a
pedestrian trip of ten days in the Franconian Mountains, taking Coburg on the
way, where the old poet Riickert lives.
Every post from America brings more and more cheering news.
The deepest interest is felt here; in fact, I find more genuine sympathy and a
more intelligent understanding of our troubles here than in England. I hold up
my head more proudly than ever. But it is hard to be away at such a time.
SOURCE: Marie Hansen-Taylor and Horace E. Scudder,
Editors, Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor, Volume 1, p. 378-9
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