ter in return for the kind one you sent me; and, if I do
not hear from you to the contrary, I shall take silence, if not for
consent, at least not for prohibition. I really did, and do, wish my
first, which is also my last, little work to record, for a few years at
least, my love and admiration of that dear old Fellow, my old Friend.

_To C. E. Norton_.

WOODBRIDGE. _June_ 9/82.

MY DEAR NORTON,

I told you, I think, but I scarce know when, that I would send you a very
little Tract of mine written forty years ago; and reformed into its
present shape in consequence of copies being askt for when I had none to
give. So a few days at Cambridge last Summer, among the old places,
though not faces, set me off. 'Et voila qui est fait,' and posted to you
along with this Letter, together with a Copy for Professor Goodwin. The
first and last of my little works: and I do think a pretty specimen of
'chisell'd Cherry-stone.' Having which opinion myself, I more than ever
deprecate any word of praise from any to whom I send it. Nay, I even
assume beforehand that you will like it too: and Professor Goodwin also
(so do not let him write): as my little tribute to my own old Cambridge
sent to you in your new. I think I shall send it to Mr. Lowell too. So
you see that I need no compliment, no, nor even acknowledgment of it. . . .

And now here is enough written. And yet I will enclose some pretty
Verses, {330a} some twenty years old, which I sent to 'Temple Bar,' which
repaid me (as I deserved) with a dozen copies. And I am always truly
yours

LITTLEGRANGE THE LAIRD.

Longfellow and Emerson! {330b}

WOODBRIDGE. _July_ 13/82.

MY DEAR NORTON,

Here is a speedy reply to your kind Letter. For I wish to say at once
that when Froude has done what he wants with my Carlyle Papers, you shall
have them to do the like. He thought (as I anticipated) that he could
use but two or three of the Letters, as you will also guess from the
scheme and compass of his Biography, as given in the Letter which I
enclose along with this; but, as I bade him use what he saw good, and
keep the Papers as long as convenient to him, I cannot as yet ask him,
how much, nor how long. When I think I may properly do so, I will: and
shall be very glad that you should have them under like conditions. You
know that they chiefly concern Naseby, which might do for an Episode, or
separate Item, in your Book, though not for Froude's; I should also think
th