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

--But I must not egotize and generalize to the end of my
sheet, as I have a message or two to declare.
I enclose a bill of exchange on the Barings for thirty-six
pounds; which is the sum of two recent payments of Munroe and of
Little and Brown, whereof I do not despair you shall yet have
some account in booksellers' figures. I have got so far with
Clark as to have his consent to audit the accounts when I shall
get energy and time enough to compile them out of my ridiculous
Journal. Munroe begs me to say what possibly I have already
asked for him, that, when the _History of Cromwell_ is ready to
be seen of men, you will have an entire copy of the Manuscript
taken, and sent over to us. Then will he print a cheap edition
such as no one will undersell, and secure such a share of profit
to the author as the cheap press allows. Perhaps only thirty or
forty pounds would make it worth while to take the trouble. A
valued friend of mine wishes to know who wrote (perhaps three
years ago) a series of metaphysical articles in _Blackwood_ on
Consciousness.


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