Hugo Schuchardt Archiv

Dear D^r H. Schuchardt,

I was glad to get your postcard of the 17^th this evening. No one has sent me The Academy containing my letter about Aizpitartes Dictionary, though I asked M^rThomas to do so, just as I asked him to send you the proofs of his edition of D’Urte, my criticisms on which seem to have irritated him. You write on this card “Ihr artikel ist¹ in der Academy”. If I printed this you would expect me to put ist in its place, and not to gibbet it above the line! but though D’urte takes the trouble to put a caret ˄ in similar cases M^rThomas disobeys the caret, but puts it in, in all its naive truthfulness of prayerful desire. Also when D’Urte in his manuscript has effaced some words he has put a line of dots… to tell the printer to leave no interval: M^rThomas chuses to put in all the dots as if he were producing a facsimile of a papyrus 3000 years old. I have in vain entreated him to consider D’urtes intentions. The Welsh are obstinate. I am glad to hear that Baron Hübners work is out. I once had a letter from him about an inscription in a place in Galicia where bai means yes,

S^a Comba on the Lima.
E. S. Dodgson.
22 Oct: 1893.
² Hotel Cadete, Vizeu, Portugal.

³ I suppose Webster has set M^r D'Abbadie against me.