the last sales. The edition is almost gone, and you shall have
an account at the end of the year.

In a letter within a twelvemonth I have urged you to pay us a
visit in America, and in Concord. I have believed that you would
come one day, and do believe it. But if, on your part, you have
been generous and affectionate enough to your friends here--or
curious enough concerning our society--to wish to come, I think
you must postpone, for the present, the satisfaction of your
friendship and your curiosity. At this moment I would not have
you here, on any account. The publication of my _Address to the
Divinity College_ (copies of which I sent you) has been the
occasion of an outcry in all our leading local newspapers against
my "infidelity," "pantheism," and "atheism." The writers warn
all and sundry against me, and against whatever is supposed
to be related to my connection of opinion, &c.; against
Transcendentalism, Goethe, and _Carlyle._ I am heartily sorry to
see this last aspect of the storm in our washbowl. For, as
Carlyle is nowise guilty, and has unpopularities of his own, I do
not wish to embroil him in my parish differences. You were
getting to be a great favorite with us all here, and are daily a
greater with the American public, but just now, _in Boston,_
where I am known as your editor, I fear you lose by the
association. Now it is indispensable to your right influence
here, that you should never come before our people as one of a
clique, but as a detached, that is, universally associated
man; so I am happy, as I could not have thought, that you
have not yielded yourself to my entreaties. Let us wait a
little until this foolish clamor be overblown. My position
is fortunately such as to put me quite out of the reach of any
real inconvenience from the panic-strikers or the panic-struck;
and, indeed, so far as this uneasiness is a necessary result of
mere inaction of mind, it seems very clear to me that, if I live,
my neighbors must look for a great many more shocks, and perhaps
harder to bear.

The article on German Religious Writers in the last _Foreign
Quarterly Review_ suits our meridian as well as yours; as is
plainly signified by the circumstance that our newspapers copy
into their columns the opening tirade and _no more._ Who wrote
that paper? And who wrote the paper on Montaigne in the
_Westminster?_ I read with great satisfaction the Poems and
Thoughts of Archaeus in _Blackwood._