st
nervous of creatures: but why put _him_ in at all, since these
Five hundred copies are wholly Little's and yours? Adieu, my
Friend. Our blessings are with you and your house. My wife
grows better with the hot weather; I, always worse.

Yours ever,
T. Carlyle

I say not a word about America or Lecturing at present; because
I mean to consider it intently in Scotland, and there to decide.
My Brother is to be at Ischl (not far from Salzburg) during
Summer: he was anxious to have me there, and I to have gone;
but--but--Adieu.

_Fraser's Shop._ Books not yet come, but known to be safe, and
expected soon. Nay, the dexterous Fraser has argued away L15 of
the duty, he says! All is right therefore. N.B. he says you are
to send the second Portion _in sheets,_ the weight will be less.
This if it be still time.--_Basta._

--T.C.

XLIV. Emerson to Carlyle

Concord, 4 July, 1839

I hear tonight, O excellent man! that, unless I send a letter to
Boston tomorrow with the peep of day, it will miss the Liverpool
steamer, which sails earlier than I dreamed of. O foolish
Steamer! I am not ready to write. The facts are not yet ripe,
though on the turn of the blush. Couldst not wait a little?
Hurry is for slaves;--and Aristotle, if I rightly remember only
that little from my college lesson, affirmed that the high-minded
man never walked fast. O foolish Steamer! wait but a week, and
we will style thee Megalopsyche, and hang thee by the Argo in the
stars. Meantime I will not deny the dear and admirable man the
fragments of intelligence I have. Be it known unto you then,
Thomas Carlyle, that I received yesterday morning your letter by
the "Liverpool" with great contentment of heart and mind, in all
respects, saving that the American Hegira, so often predicted on
your side and prayed on ours, is treated with a most unbecoming
levity and oblivion; and, moreover, that you do not seem to have
received all the letters I seem to have sent. With the letter
came the proof-sheet safe, and shall be presently exhibited to
Little and Brown. You must have already the result of our first
colloquy on that matter. I can now bring the thing nearer to
certainty. But you must print their names as before advised on
the title-page.

Nearly four weeks ago Ellis sent me the noble Italian print for
my wife.* She is in Boston at this time, and I believe will be
glad that I have written