Publication InformationBurlington May 28 1860

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Dear Baird

The books arrived much sooner than I expected, and I am infinitely obliged to you for the trouble you have had with them They came uninjured, except one box, several vols of which were much injured by wet. The forwarding people here think they must have been wet before they were shipped, as they were much moulded, and the paper in some of them quite rotten. I think they were exposed to hot escape steam, or stowed in a hot place on board they might have been as much injured in a week. The question is not worth troubling you with, but if you think they were dry when shipped, I shall of course not pay freight. I am ashamed to mention this after all the plague you have had, but I

am going to give you a little more.
II. Of the books left at the S.I, the following are missing.
Pujades, Crónica de Cataluña. Vol. VIII.

This is a small folio, on what we should call about imperial 800 in paper. Spanish.
Don Quixote in Vol 1

This is a small 18 mo. bound in sheep, Spanish style, but finely printed. The set was in 8 Vols, besides Life of Cervantes. The vol. is wanting--
Paffenrode, on the military system of the Ancients, in , one volume, folio, --
Coleridge's Poems, Three vols 12 mo --
Becker, Das Wort. --
Hogguer, Travels in Lapland. I have.
The atlas of plates, an oblong vol., is missing -- It is in --
Heine, Werke. three vols. 18 mo. --
Bibliotheque de Poche -- three vols. --
French and Danish Dictionary, size not remembered, probably small. --
Antar, a Bedoueen Romance in 4 volumes 12 mo
in . vol. missing --
Carlisle, Heroes one vol.

Tieck, Frauendienst. One vol. small 8 mo,
Bailey's Festus. , 1 vol 12 mo -- Old English Plays. one vol 8 vo --
Hans von Schweinichen 3 vols. , Vol II
missing --------

I suppose most of these have been , & are gone without the reach of process, but there is no blame on your part ( that is on the part of any Smithsonian) So, unless they happen to have accidentally got among the general library, don't try to search for them elsewhere---
III. Per contra, you have sent me of what is not mine.
, Dict. pour l'intelligence des auteurs classiques vols I to XXXV. I believe, coming down from A to This I never owned, but it has not your mark. I suppose it ought to have it --
[?] . Encyc. of Antiq., Vol. III. This was mine, but I sold it to Smith. Inst. with the other vols --
IV. I sold G. C. Warmholtz, Bibliotheca Historica Sueo. Goth. in XVI or XVII vols. You have now another copy, and I believe a better

as being large paper. Will you sell the worst one & for how much? I don't know what it cost?--
V. I don't propose to back Sabathier & [Fasbrooke?]. I doubt whether Sabathier is worth , & freight for the whole would be too much to pay on [Fasbrooke?]. Shall I send them by the freight line?

Yours trulyGeo P Marsh

Prof. Baird

References in this letter:

Pujades Cronica de Cataluna Jero(ague)nimo Pujades, ULINE>Cronica universal de principado de Cataluna/ULINE>. 8 vols. Barcelona: J. Torner, 1829-1832.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, ULINE>El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha/ULINE>. Corregido denuevo, con notas, vin(tilde)etas, analisis y via, por Juan Antonio Pellicer. 8 vols. Madrid, 1798-1799.

Johan van Paffenrode, Der Grieken en Romeynen krysrhandel:.... Leyden: P van der Meersche, 1686.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ULINE>The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge/ULINE>. 3 vols. London: W. Pickering, 1844.

Karl Ferdinand Becker. ULINE>Das Wort in seiner organischen Verwandlung/ULINE>. Frankfurt am Main: J.C. Hermann, 1833.

Hogguer, friherre von. ULINE>Reise nach Lappland und dem nordlichen Schweden/ULINE>. Berlin, 1841.

ULINE>Bibliothe(grave) de poche par une socie(ague)te(ague) de gens de lettres et d'e(ague)rudits/ULINE> Paris: Papulin Paulin et le Chevalier, 1845.

Antar, ULINE>A Bedoueen Romance/ULINE>. London: Murray, 1820.

Thomas Carlyle, ULINE>On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History/ULINE>. First published in 1841 with many subsequent editions.

Ludwig Tieck Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte Sr. Majestät Abraham Tonelli

Philip James Bailey, ULINE>Festus. A Poem/ULINE>. London: W. Pickering; first published in 1839 with several subsequent editons.

Hans von Schwinichen, ULINE>Leben und Abenteuer des schlesischen Ritter/ULINE>. 3 vols. Leipzig: 1822-1823.