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England – 9th December 1846
To Mr B R
Dear Brother
Here at last is another notebook[1]. I have been in Ireland, travelling, ill, all sorts of things. Having had, by the delay in my departure for France, several days of at least a comparative tranquillity, I have used it in part for this work. I hesitate a little: 1) because this will probably be too late for it to be used; 2) because I have had to do it with less care and attention than the gravity of the service required. However, being subject to others, I send it; one would perhaps still correct some things on the proofs, if it is found good, and as the translation requires it, it seems to me. I have not had even a few of the books which I could in general use, but at last here is the work such as it is. Valeat quantum[2] – May the Lord be with you.
Yours very affectionately
[1] previous letters relate these notebooks to notes for the Lausanne translation project
[2] ‘let it have effect’
