The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II

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Title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo
Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.
Author: Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS CARLYLE AND RALPH
WALDO EMERSON 1834-1872
VOLUME II

"To my friend I write a letter, and from him I receive a letter. It is a

spiritual gift, worthy of him to give, and of me to receive."--Emerson
"What the writer did actually mean, the thing he then thought of, the
thing he then was."--Carlyle

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II
LXXVI. Emerson. Concord, 1 July, 1842. Remittance of L51.--
Alcott.--Editorship of the _Dial._--Projected essay on Poetry.-- Stearns
Wheeler.
LXXVII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 19 July, 1842. Acknowledgment of
remittance.--Change of publishers.--Work on _Cromwell._--
Sterling.--Alcott.
LXXVIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 29 August, 1842. Impotence of
speech.--Heart-sick for his own generation.--Transcendentalism of the
_Dial._
LXXIX. Emerson. Concord, 15 October, 1842. The coming book on
Cromwell.--Alcott.--The Dial and its sins.--Booksellers' accounts.
LXXX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 17 November, 1842. Accounts.--Alcott.--
Sect-founders.--Man the Reformer.--James Stephen.--Gambardella.
LXXXI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 11 March, 1843. _Past and Present._-- How
to prevent pirated republication.--The _Dial._--Alcott's English Tail.
LXXXII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 1 April, 1843. Copy of Past and Present
forwarded.--Prospect of pirated edition.
LXXXIII. Emerson. Concord, 29 April, 1843. Carlyle's star.-- Lectures
on "New England" at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.--Politics
in Washington.--_Past and Present._--Effect of cheap press in
America.--Reprint of the book.--The Dial does not pay expenses.
Extract from Emerson's Diary concerning _Past and Present._
LXXXIV. Carlyle. 27 August, 1843. Introduction of Mr. Macready.
LXXXV. Emerson. Concord, 30 October, 1843. Remittance of L25.--
Piratical reprint of _Past and Present._--E.P. Clark, a Carlylese, to be
asked to take charge of accounts.--Henry James. --Ellery Channing's
Poems.
LXXXVI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 31 October, 1843. Summer wanderings.
--The Dial at the London Library.--Growth of Emerson's public in
England.--Piratical reprint of his Essays in London.--of Past and
Present in America.--Criticism of Carlyle in the Dial.--Dr.
Russell.--Theodore Parker.--Book about Cromwell.-- _Commons

Journals._
LXXXVII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 17 November, 1843. Receipt of L25.--
E.P. Clark.--Henry James.--Channing's Poems.--Reverend W.H.
Channing.--"Progress of the Species."--Emerson.--The Cromwell
business.
LXXXVIII. Emerson. Concord, 31 December, 1843. Macready.--
Railroad to Concord.--Margaret Fuller's Review of Sterling's Poems in
the _Dial._--Remittance of L32.
LXXXIX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 31 January, 1844. Remittance received and
made.--Criticism of Emerson by Gilfillan.--John Sterling.-- Cromwell
book.--Hexameters from Voss.
XC. Emerson. Concord, 29 February, 1844. Acknowledgment of
remittance.--A new collection of Essays.--Faith in Writers as a
class.--Remittance of L36.--Proposal concerning publication in
America of _Cromwell._
XCI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 3 April, 1844. Acknowledgment of
remittance.--Piratical reprints.--Professor Ferrier.
XCII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 5 August, 1844. Fear for Sterling.--
Tennyson.--Work on Cromwell frightful.
XCIII. Emerson. Concord, 1 September, 1844. Sends proof sheets of
new book of Essays.--Sterling.
XCIV. Carlyle. Chelsea, 29 September, 1844. Death of Sterling.
XCV. Emerson. Concord, 30 September, 1844. Remittance of L30--
Sterling.--Tennyson.--Regrets having troubled Carlyle about
proof-sheets.--Birth of Edward Emerson.--Purchase of land on Walden
Pond.
XCVI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 3 November, 1844. Thanks for
remittance.--London edition of _Essays,_ Second Series.-- Criticism on
them.
XCVII. Emerson. Concord, 31 December, 1844. Sterling's death.--
London edition of _Essays._--Carlyle's Preface and strictures.
XCVIII. Emerson. Concord, 31 January, 1845. Bargain about
Miscellanies with Carey and Hart.--Portrait of Carlyle desired.--E.P.
Clark's "Illustrations of Carlyle".
XCIX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 16 February, 1845. Bargain with Carey &
Co.--Portrait.--Emerson's public in England.--Work on Cromwell.
C. Emerson. Concord, 29 June, 1845. Death of Mr. Carey.--

Portrait.--His own occupations.--Preparing to print _Poems._--
Lectures in prospect.
CI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 29 August, 1845. _Cromwell's Letters and
Speeches_ finished.--Nature of the book.--New book from Emerson
welcome.--Imperfection of all modes of utterance.--Forbids further
plague with booksellers.
CII. Emerson. Concord, 15 September, 1845. Payment sure from Carey
and Hart.--Lectures on "Representative Men".
CIII. Emerson. Concord, 30 September, 1845. Congratulations on
completion of Cromwell book.--Clark.
CIV. Carlyle. Chelsea, 11 November, 1845. Cromwell book sent.--
Visit to Scotland.--Changes there.--His mother.--Impatience with the
times.--Weariness with the Cromwell book.--Visit to the Ashburtons.
CV. Carlyle. Chelsea, 3 January, 1846. Thanks to Mr. Hart, Mr.
Furness, and others.--_Cromwell proves popular.--New letters of
Cromwell.
CVI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 3 February, 1846. Second edition of
Cromwell.--Emerson to do what he will concerning republication.--
Anti-Corn-Law.--Aristocracy and Millocracy.
CVII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 3 March, 1846. Cromwell lumber.--Sheets of
new edition sent.-Essay on Emerson in an Edinburgh Magazine.-- Mr.
Everett.--Jargon in Newspapers and Parliament.