ty,
discontent, fast ripening towards desperation, extends far
and wide among our working people. God help them! In man as
yet is small help. There will be work yet, before that account
is liquidated; a generation or two of work! Miss Martineau is
gone to Switzerland, after emitting _Deerwood_ [sic], a Novel.*
How do you like it? people ask. To which there are serious answers
returnable, but few so good as none. Ah me! Lady Bulwer too has
written a Novel, in satire of her Husband. I saw the Husband not
long since; one of the wretchedest Phantasms, it seemed to me, I
had yet fallen in with,--many, many, as they are here.

The L100 Sterling Bill came, in due time, in perfect order; and
will be payable one of these days. I forget dates; but had well
calculated that before the 19th of March this piece of news and
my gratitude for it had reached you.

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* _Deerbrook_
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XXXVIII. Emerson to Carlyle

Boston, 20 April, 1839

My Dear Friend,--Learning here in town that letters may go today
to the "Great Western," I seize the hour to communicate a
bookseller's message. I told Brown, of C.C. Little & Co., that
you think of stereotyping the _History._ He says that he can
make it profitable to himself and to you to use your plates here
in this manner (which he desires may be kept secret here, and I
suppose with you also). You are to get your plates made and
proved, then you are to send them out here to him, having first
insured them in London, and he is to pay you a price for every
copy he prints from them. As soon as he has printed a supply for
our market,--and we want, he says, five hundred copies now,--he
will send them back to you. I told him I thought he had better
fix the price per copy to be paid by him, and I would send it to
you as his offer. He is willing to do so, but not today. It was
only this morning I informed him of your plan. I think in a
fortnight I shall need to write again,--probably to introduce to
you my countrywoman, Miss Sedgwick, the writer of affectionate
New England tales and the like, who is about to go to Europe for
a year or more. I will then get somewhat definite from Brown as
to rates and prices. Brown thought you might better send the
plates here first, as we are in immediate want of copies; and
afterwards print with them in London. He is quite sure that it
would be more profitable to print them in this manner than to
try to import and sell here