ng what I could to help myself.

Very glad shall I be, my Friend, to have some new utterances from
you either in verse or in prose! What you say about the vast
_imperfection_ of all modes of utterance is most true indeed.
Let a man speak and sing, and do, and sputter and gesticulate as
he may,--the meaning of him is most ineffectually shown forth,
poor fellow; rather _indicated_ as if by straggling symbols,
than _spoken_ or visually expressed! Poor fellow! So the great
rule is, That he _have_ a good manful meaning, and then that he
take what "mode of utterance" is honestly the readiest for him.--
I wish you would take an American Hero, one whom you really love;
and give us a History of him,--make an artistic bronze statue (in
good _words_) of his Life and him! I do indeed.--But speak of
what you will, you are welcome to me. Once more I say, No other
voice in this wide waste world seems to my sad ear to be
_speaking_ at all at present. The more is the pity for us.

I forbid you to plague yourself any farther with those
Philadelphia or other Booksellers. If you could hinder them to
promulgate any copy of that frightful picture by Lawrence, or
indeed any picture at all, I had rather stand as a shadow than as
a falsity in the minds of my American friends: but this too we
are prepared to encounter. And as for the money of these men,--
if they will pay it, good and welcome; if they will not pay it,
let them keep it with what blessing there may be in it! I have
your noble offices in that and in other such matters already
unforgetably sure to me; and, in real fact, that is almost
exactly the whole of valuable that could exist for me in the
affair. Adieu, dear Friend. Write to me again; I will write
again at more leisure.

Yours always,
T. Carlyle

CII. Emerson to Carlyle

Concord, 15 September, 1845

My Dear Friend,--I have seen Furness of Philadelphia, who was,
last week, in Boston, and inquired of him what account I should
send you of the new Philadelphia edition. "Has not Mr. Carey
paid you?" he said.--No. "Then has he not paid Carlyle
directly?" No, as I believe, or I should have heard of it.--
Furness replied, that the promised fifty pounds were sure, and
that the debt would have been settled before this time, if Mr.
Carey had lived. So as this is no longer a Three Blind
Callenders' business of Arabian Nights, I shall rest secure. I
have doubted whether the bad name which Phi