and color. What would I not give for a head of Shakespeare by
the same artist? of Plato? of Demosthenes? Here I have the
jutting brow, and the excellent shape of the head. And here the
organism of the eye full of England, the valid eye, in which I
see the strong executive talent which has made his thought
available to the nations, whilst others as intellectual as he are
pale and powerless. The photograph comes dated 25 April, 1846,
and he writes, 'I am fifty years old."'
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I am heartily glad that you are in direct communication with
these really energetic booksellers, Wiley and Putnam. I
understood from Wiley's letter to me, weeks ago, that their
ambition was not less than to have a monopoly of your books. I
answered, it is very desirable for us too; saving always the
rights of Mr. Hart in Philadelphia.--I told him you had no
interest in Munroe's _Sartor,_ which from the first was his own
adventure, and Little and Brown had never reprinted _Past and
Present_ or _Chartism._ The _French Revolution, Past and
Present, Chartism,_ and the _Sartor,_ I see no reason why they
should not have. Munroe and L. & B. have no real claims, and I
will speak to them. But there is one good particular in Putnam's
proffer to you, which Wiley has not established in his (first and
last) agreement with me, namely, that you shall have an interest
in what is already sold of their first edition of _Cromwell._ By
all means close with Putnam of the good mind, exempting only
Hart's interest. I have no recent correspondence with Wiley and
Putnam. And I greatly prefer that they should deal directly
with you. Yet it were best to leave an American reference open
for audit and umpirage to the stanch E.P. Clark of the New
England Bank.

Ever yours,
R.W. Emerson

CXII. Carlyle to Emerson

Chelsea, 18 June, 1846

Dear Emerson,--I have had two letters of yours, the last of them
(31st May) only two days, and have seen a third written to Wiley
of New York. Yesterday Putnam was here, and we made our
bargain,--and are to have it signed this day at his Shop: two
copies, one of which I mean to insert along with this, and give
up to your or E.P. Clark's keeping. For, as you will see, I have
appointed Clark my representative, economic plenipotentiary and
factotum, if he will consent to act in that sublime capacity,--
subject always to your advice, to your control in all _ultra_-
economic respects, of which you alon