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Title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.

Author: Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Release Date: October 6, 2004 [EBook #13660]

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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS CARLYLE AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON
1834-1872

VOLUME II

"To my friend I write a letter, and from him I receive a letter.
It is a spiritual gift, worthy of him to give, and of me to
receive."--Emerson

"What the writer did actually mean, the thing he then thought of,
the thing he then was."--Carlyle

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II

LXXVI. Emerson. Concord, 1 July, 1842. Remittance of L51.--
Alcott.--Editorship of the _Dial._--Projected essay on Poetry.--
Stearns Wheeler.

LXXVII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 19 July, 1842. Acknowledgment of
remittance.--Change of publishers.--Work on _Cromwell._--
Sterling.--Alcott.

LXXVIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 29 August, 1842. Impotence of
speech.--Heart-sick for his own generation.--Transcendentalism of
the _Dial._

LXXIX. Emerson. Concord, 15 October, 1842. The coming book on
Cromwell.--Alcott.--The _Dial_ and its sins.--Booksellers'
accounts.

LXXX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 17 November, 1842. Accounts.--Alcott.--
Sect-founders.--Man the Reformer.--James Stephen.--Gambardella.

LXXXI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 11 March, 1843. _Past and Present._--
How to prevent pirated republication.--The _Dial._--Alcott's
English Tail.

LXXXII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 1 April, 1843. Copy of _Past and
Present_ forwarded.--Prospect of pirated edition.

LXXXIII. Emerson. Concord, 29 April, 1843. Carlyle's star.--
Lectures on "New England" at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New
York.--Politics in Washington.--_Past and Present._--Effect of
cheap press in America.--Reprint of the book.--The _Dial_ does
not pay expenses.

Extract from Emerson's Diary concerning _Past and Present._

LXXXIV. Carlyle. 27 August, 1843. Introduction of Mr. Macready.

LXXXV.