the books after being manufactured
in London.

On the 30th of April we shall ship at New York the first two
volumes of the _Miscellanies,_ two hundred and sixty copies. In
four weeks, the second two volumes will be finished, unless we
wait for something to be added by yourself, agreeably to a
suggestion of Wheeler's and mine. Two copies of _Schiller's
Life_ will go in the same box. We send them to the port of
London. When these are gone, only one hundred copies remain
unsold of the first two volumes (_Miscellanies_).

Brown said it was important that the plates should be proved
correct at London by striking off impressions before they were
sent hither. This is the whole of my present message. I shall
have somewhat presently to reply to your last letter, received
three weeks since. And may health and peace dwell with you
and yours!

--R.W. Emerson

XXXIX. Emerson to Carlyle

Concord, 25 April, 1839

My Dear Friend,--Behold my account! A very simple thing, is it
not! A very mouse, after such months, almost years, of promise!
Despise it not, however; for such is my extreme dulness at
figures and statements that this nothing has been a fear to me, a
long time, how to extract it from the bookseller's promiscuous
account with me, and from obscure records of my own. You see
that it promises yet to pay you between $60 and $70 more, if
Mr. Fuller (a gentleman of Providence, who procured many
_subscribers_ for us there) and Mr. Owen (who owes us also
for copies subscribed for) will pay us our demand. They have
both been lately reminded of their delinquency. Herrick and
Noyes, you will see credited for eight copies, $18. They are
booksellers who supplied eight subscribers, and charged us $2 for
their trouble and some alleged damage to a copy. One copy you
will see is sold to Ann Pomeroy for $3. This lady bought the
copy of me, and preferred sending me $3 to sending $2.50 for so
good a book. You will notice one or two other variations in the
prices, in each of which I aimed to use a friend's discretion.
Add lastly, that you must revise all my figures, as I am a
hopeless blunderer, and quite lately made a brilliant mistake in
regard to the amount of 9 multiplied by 12.

Have I asked you whether you received from me a copy of the
_History?_ I designated a copy to go, and the bookseller's boy
thinks he sent one, but there is none charged in their account.
The account of the _Mis