_ Sterling's papers--if he
is near you--are all in Mr. Russell's hands.* I played my part
of Fadladeen with great rigor, and sent my results to Russell,
but have not now written to J. S.
Yours,
R.W.E.
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* Mr. A.L. Russell, who had been instrumental in procuring the
American edition of Sterling's _Poetical Works._
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LXXX. Carlyle to Emerson
Chelsea, London, 19 November, 1842
My Dear Emerson,--Your Letter finds me here today; busied with
many things, but not likely to be soon more at leisure;
wherefore I may as well give myself the pleasure of answering it
on the spot. The Fraser Bill by Brown and Little has come all
right; the Dumfries Banker apprises me lately that he has got
the cash into his hands. Pray do not pester yourself with these
Bookseller unintelligibilities: I suppose their accounts are all
reasonably correct, the cheating, such as it is, done according
to rule: what signifies it at any rate? I am no longer in any
vital want of money; alas, the want that presses far heavier on
me is a want of faculty, a want of _sense;_ and the feeling of
that renders one comparatively very indifferent to money! I
reflect many times that the wealth of the Indies, the fame of ten
Shakespeares or ten Mahomets, would at bottom do me no good at
all.
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