-----
* In his _Life of Sterling,_ Carlyle prints a letter from
Sterling to himself, dated Bordeaux, October 26, 1836, in which
Sterling urges him to come "in the first fine days of spring."
It must have reached him a few days before he wrote this letter
to Emerson.
---------

I ought to say, however, that about New-year's-day I will send
you an Article on _Mirabeau,_ which they have printed here (for a
thing called the _London Review_), and some kind of Note to
escort it. I think Pamphlets travel as Letters in New England,
provided you leave the ends of them open: if I be mistaken, pray
instruct Messrs. Barnard to _refuse_ the thing, for it has small
value. _The Diamond Necklace_ is to be printed also, in
_Fraser;_ inconceivable hawking that poor Paper has had; till
now Fraser takes it--for L50: not being able to get it for
nothing. The _Mirabeau_ was written at the passionate request of
John Mill; and likewise for needful lucre. I think it is the
first shilling of money I have earned by my craft these four
years: where the money I have lived on has come from while I sat
here scribbling gratis, amazes me to think; yet surely it has
come (for I am still here), and Heaven only to thank for it,
which is a great fact. As for Mill's _London Review_ (for he is
quasi-editor), I do not recommend it to you. Hide-bound
Radicalism; a to me well-nigh insupportable thing! Open it not:
a breath as of Sahara and the Infinite Sterile comes from every
page of it. A young Radical Baronet* has laid out L3,000 on
getting the world instructed in that manner: it is very curious
to see.--Alas! the bottom of the sheet! Take my hurried but
kindest thanks for the prospect of your second Teufelsdrockh:
the _first_ too is now in my possession; Brother John went to
the Post-Office, and worked it out for a ten shillings. It is
a beautiful little Book; and a Preface to it such as no kindest
friend could have improved. Thank my kind Editor** very heartily
from me.

---------
* Sir William Molesworth. In his _Autobiography_ Mill gives an
interesting account of the founding of this _Review,_ and his
quasi-editorial relations to it. "In the beginning," he says,
"it did not, as a whole, by any means represent my opinion."

** Dr. Le-Baron Russell
---------

My wife was in Scotland in summer, driven thither by ill health;
she is stronger since her return, though not yet strong; she
sends over to Concord her kindest wish