go. They asked me to print it, but Margaret Fuller
asked it also, and I preferred the _Dial,_ which shall have the
dubious sermon, and I will send it to you in that.--You see the
bookseller reverendizes me notwithstanding your laudable
perseverance to adorn me with profane titles, on the one hand,
and the growing habit of the majority of my correspondents to
clip my name of all titles on the other. I desire that you and
your wife will keep your kindness for

--R. W. Emerson

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LXII. Emerson to Carlyle

Boston, 30 April, 1841

My Dear Carlyle,--Above you have a bill of exchange for one
hundred pounds sterling drawn by T.W. Ward & Co. on the Messrs.
Barings, payable at sight. Let us hope it is but the first of a
long series. I have vainly endeavored to get your account to be
rendered by Munroe & Co. to the date of the 1st of April. It was
conditionally promised for the day of the last steamer (15
April). It is not ready for that which sails tomorrow and
carries this. Little & Co. acknowledge a debt of $607.90 due to
you 1st of April, and just now paid me; and regret that their
sales have been so slow, which they attribute to the dulness of
all trade among us for the last two years. You shall have the
particulars of their account from Munroe's statement of the
account between you and me. Munroe & Co. have a long apology for
not rendering their own account; their book keeper left them at
a critical moment, they were without one six weeks, &c.;--but
they add, if we could give you it, to what use, since we should
be utterly unable to make you any payment at this time? To what
use, surely? I am too much used to similar statements from
our booksellers and others in the last few years to be much
surprised; nor do I doubt their readiness or their power to pay
all their debts at last; but a great deal of mutual concession
and accommodation has been the familiar resort of our tradesmen
now for a good while, a vice which they are all fain to lay at
the doors of the Government, whilst it belongs in the first
instance, no doubt, to the rashness of the individual traders.
These men I believe to be prudent, honest, and solvent, and that
we shall get all our debt from them at last. They are not
reckoned as rich as Little and Brown. By the next steamer they
think they can promise to have their account ready. I am sorry