ote, one of the chief men among the
Pusey-and-Newman Corporation. A good man, and with good notions,
whom I have noted for some years back. He finds me a very worthy
fellow; "true, most true,"--except where I part from Puseyism,
and reckon the shovel-hat to be an old bit of felt; then I am
false, most false. As the Turks say, _Allah akbar!_

I forget altogether what I said of Landor; but I hope I did not
put him in the Heraud category: a cockney windbag is one thing;
a scholar and bred man, though incontinent, explosive, half-true,
is another. He has not been in town, this year; Milnes
describes him as _eating_ greatly at Bath, and perhaps even
cooking! Milnes did get your Letter: I told you? Sterling has
the Concord landscape; mine is to go upon the wall here, and
remind me of many things. Sterling is busy writing; he is to
make Falmouth do, this winter, and try to dispense with Italy.
He cannot away with my doctrine of _Silence;_ the good John. My
Wife has been better than usual all summer; she begins to shiver
again as winter draws nigh. Adieu, dear Emerson. Good be with
you and yours. I must be far gone when I cease to love you.
"The stars are above us, the graves are under us." Adieu.

--T. Carlyle

LVIII. Emerson to Carlyle

Concord, 30 October, 1840

My Dear Friend,--My hope is that you may live until this creeping
bookseller's balance shall incline at last to your side. My rude
ciphering, based on the last account of this kind which I sent
you in April from J. Munroe & Co., had convinced me that I was to
be in debt to you at this time L40 or more; so that I actually
bought L40 the day before the "Caledonia" sailed to send you;
but on giving my new accounts to J.M. & Co., to bring the
statement up to this time, they astonished me with the above
written result. I professed absolute incredulity, but Nichols*
labored to show me the rise and progress of all my blunders.
Please to send the account with the last to your Fraser, and have
it sifted. That I paid, a few weeks since, $481.34, and again,
$28.12, for printing and paper respectively, is true.--C.C.
Little & Co. acknowledge the sale of 82 more copies of the London
Edition _French Revolution_ since the 187 copies of July 1; but
these they do not get paid for until January 1, and we it seems
must wait as long. We will see if the New-Year's-day will bring
us more pence.

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