If and are Tychonoff spaces, let ( ) and ( ) be the free locally convex space over and , respectively. For general and , the question of whether ( ) can be embedded as a topological vector subspace of ( ) is difficult. The best results in the literature are that if ( ) can be embedded as a topological vector subspace of (I), where I = [0, 1], then is a countabledimensional compact metrizable space. Further, if is a finite-dimensional compact metrizable space, then ( ) can be embedded as a topological vector subspace of (I). In this paper, it is proved that ( ) can be embedded in (R) as a topological vector subspace if is a disjoint union of a countable number of finite-dimensional locally compact separable metrizable spaces. This is the case if = R , ∈ N. It is also shown that if G and denote the Cantor space and the Hilbert cube I N , respectively, then (i) ( ) is embedded in (G) if and only if is a zero-dimensional metrizable compact space; (ii) ( ) is embedded in ( ) if and only if is a metrizable compact space.