cotch Highlands,
will be safe over the horizon! In short, we are all bound
thitherward in few days; must cobble up some kind of gypsy
establishment; and bless Heaven for solitude, for the sight of
green fields, heathy moors; for a silent sky over one's head,
and air to breathe which does not consist of coal-smoke, finely
powdered flint, and other beautiful _etceteras_ of that kind
among others! God knows I have need enough to be left altogether
alone for some considerable while (_forever,_ as it at present
seems to me), to get my inner world, and my poor bodily nerves,
both all torn to pieces, set in order a little again! After much
vain reluctance therefore; disregarding many considerations,--
disregarding _finance_ in the front of these,--I am off; and
calculate on staying till I am heartily _sated_ with country,
till at least the last gleam of summer weather has departed. My
way of life has all along hitherto been a resolute _staying at
home:_ I find now, however, that I must alter my habits, cost
what it may; that I cannot live all the year round in London,
under pain of dying or going rabid;--that I must, in fact, learn
to travel, as others do, and be hanged to me! Wherefore, in
brief, my Friend, our address for the next two or three months is
"Newington Lodge, Annan, Scotland,"--where a letter from Emerson
will be a right pleasant visitor! _Faustum sit._

My second piece of news, not less interesting I hope, is that
_Emerson's Essays,_ the Book so called, is to be reprinted here;
nay, I think, is even now at press,--in the hands of that
invaluable Printer, Robson, who did the _Miscellanies._ Fraser
undertakes it, "on _half-profits_";--T. Carlyle writing a
Preface,*--which accordingly he did (in rather sullen humor,--not
with you!) last night and the foregoing days. Robson will stand
by the text to the very utmost; and I also am to read the Proof
sheets. The edition is of Seven Hundred and Fifty; which Fraser
thinks he will sell. With what joy shall I then sack up the
small Ten Pounds Sterling perhaps of "Half-Profits," and remit
them to the man Emerson; saying: There, Man! Tit for tat, the
reciprocity _not_ all on one side!--I ought to say, moreover,
that this was a volunteer scheme of Fraser's; the risk is all
his, the origin of it was with him: I advised him to have it
reviewed, as being a really noteworthy Book; "Write you a
Preface," said he, "and I will reprint it";--to which, afte