n any way you please, That the Second Edition will be
augmented, corrected, as aforesaid; and that Mr. (Any Son of
Adam you please to name) is, so far as I have any voice in the
matter, appointed by me, to the exclusion of all and sundry
others on what pretext soever, to print and vend the same to my
American Friends. And so it stands; and the Sheets (probably
near thirty in number) will be out with the March Packet:--
and if nothing can come of it, I for one shall be very glad!
The Book is to be in Three Volumes now; the first ends at
p. 403, Vol. I.; the third begins at p. 155, Vol. II., of
the present edition.

What are you doing? Write to me: how the Lectures went, how all
things went and go! We are over head and ears in Anti-Corn-Law
here; the Aristocracy struck almost with a kind of horror at
sight of that terrible Millocracy, rising like a huge hideous
Frankenstein up in Lancashire,--seemingly with boundless ready-
money in its pocket, and a very fierce humor in its stomach! To
me it is as yet almost uglier than the Aristocracy; and I will
not fire guns when this small victory is gained; I will
recommend a day of Fasting rather, that such a victory required
such gaining.

Adieu, my Friend. Is it likely we shall meet in "Oregon," think
you? That would be a beautiful affair, on the part of the most
enlightened Nation!

Yours ever,
T. Carlyle

CVII. Carlyle to Emerson

Chelsea, 3 March, 1846

Dear Emerson,--I must write you a word before this Packet go,
tho' my haste is very great. I received your two Newspapers
(price only twopence); by the same Ship there came, and reached
me some days later, a Letter from Mr. Everett enclosing the
_Cromwell_ portions of the same printed-matter, clipt out by
scissors; written, it appeared, by Mr. Everett's nephew; some
of whose remarks, especially his wish that I might once be in New
England, and see people "praying," amused me much! The Cotton
Letter, &c., I have now got to the bottom of; Birch's copy is in
the Museum here,--a better edition than I had. Of "Levered" and
the other small American Documents--alas, I get cartloads of the
like or better tumbled down at my door, and my chief duty is to
front them resolutely with a _shovel._ "Ten thousand tons" is
but a small estimate for the quantity of loose and indurated
lumber I have had to send sounding, on each hand of me, down,
down to the eternal deeps, never to trouble _me_ more!