ritten he employed me last
week in negotiating with the Editors about it; and their answer
was, "Send us the Paper, it promises very well." We shall see
whether it comes out or not; keeping silence till then. Milnes
is a _Tory_ Member of Parliament; think of that! For the rest,
he describes his religion in these terms: "I profess to be a
Crypto-Catholic." Conceive the man! A most bland-smiling, semi-
quizzical, affectionate, high-bred, Italianized little man, who
has long olive-blond hair, a dimple, next to no chin, and flings
his arm round your neck when he addresses you in public society!
Let us hear now what he will say, of the American _Vates._*

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L. Carlyle to Emerson

Chelsea, London, 17 January, 1840

Dear Emerson,--Your Letter of the 12th of December, greatly, to
my satisfaction, has arrived; the struggling Steamship, in spite
of all hurricanes, has brought it safe across the waters to me.
I find it good to write you a word in return straightway; though
I think there are already two, or perhaps even three, messages of
mine to you flying about unacknowledged somewhere under the moon;
nay, the last of them perhaps may go by the same packet as this,
--having been forwarded, as this will be, to _Liverpool,_ after
the "British Queen" sailed from London.

Your account of the _French Revolution_ packages, and prognosis
of what Little and Brown will do with them, is altogether as it
should be. I apprised Fraser instantly of his invoiceless Books,
&c.; he answers, that order has been taken in that long since,
"instructions" sent, and, I conclude, arrangements for _bills_
least of all forgotten. I mentioned what share of the duty was
his; and that your men meant to draw on him for it. That is all
right. As to the _French Revolution,_ I agree with your
Booksellers altogether about it; the American Edition actually
pleases myself better for looking at; nor do I know that
this new English one has much superiority for use: it is
despicably printed, I fear, so far as false spellings and other
slovenlinesses can go. Fraser "finds the people like it";
_credat Judaeus;_--as for me, I have told him I will _not print
any more_ with that man, but with some other man. Curious
enough, the price Little and Brown have fixed upon was the price
I remember guessing at beforehand, and the result they propose to
realize for me corresponds clo