nd make for some shady
place direct:--Scotland is perhaps likeliest; but nothing yet is
fixed: you shall duly hear.--Directly after this, I set off for
Putnam's in Waterloo Place; sign his paper there; stick one
copy under a cover for you, and despatch.--Send me word about all
that you are doing and thinking. Be busy, be still and happy.

Yours ever,
T. Carlyle

CXIII. Emerson to Carlyle

Concord, 15 July, 1846

My Dear Carlyle,--I received by the last steamer your letter with
the copy of the covenant with Wiley and Putnam, which seems
unexceptionable. I like the English side of those men very well;
that is, Putnam seems eager to stand well and rightly with his
fellow-men. Wiley at New York it was who provoked me, last
winter, to write him an angry letter when he declared his
intention to reprint our new matter without paying for it. When
he thought better of it, and came to terms, I had not got so far
as to be affectionate, and have never yet resumed the
correspondence I had with him a year ago, about my own books. I
hope you found my letter to them, though I do not remember which,
properly cross. I believe I only enumerated difficulties. I
have talked with Little and Brown about their editions of
_Chartism,_ and _Past and Present;_ they have made no new sales
of the books since they were printed on by the pirates, and say
that the books lie still on their shelves, as also do a few
copies of the London and Boston edition of _French Revolution._
I prayed them immediately to dispose of these things by auction,
or at their trade sales, at whatever prices would sell them, and
leave the market open for W. & P.; which they promise to do.

To Munroe I went, and learn that he has bought the stereotype-
plates of the New York pirate edition of _Sartor,_ and means to
print it immediately. He is willing to stop if W. & P. will buy
of him his plates at their cost. I wrote so to them, but they
say no. And I have not spoken again with Munroe. I was in town
yesterday, and carried the copy of the Covenant to E.P. Clark,
and read him your message. His Bank occupies him entirely just
now, for his President is gone to Europe, and Clark's duties are
the more onerous. But finding that the new responsibilities
delegated to him are light and tolerable, and, at any rate,
involve no retrospection, he very cheerfully signified his
readiness to serve you, and I graciously forbore all allusions to
my heap