Carlyle,
14th September; full of love and enthusiasm;--the Friday before
his death: I was visiting the old City of Winchester that day,
among the tombs of Canutes and eldest noble ones: you may judge
how sacred the memory of those hours now is!
I have read your Slavery Address; this morning the first _half_-
sheet, in Proof, of the _Essays_ has come: perfectly correct,
and right good reading.
Yours ever,
T. Carlyle
XCV. Emerson to Carlyle
Concord, 30 September, 1844
My Dear Friend,--I enclose a bill of exchange for thirty pounds
sterling which I procured in town today at $5 each pound, or
$150; so high, it seems, is the rate at present, higher, they
said, than for years. It is good booksellers' money from Little
and Brown, and James Munroe & Co., in unequal proportions. If
you wish for more accurate information and have a great deal of
patience, there is still hope that you may obtain it before
death; for I this day met E.P. Clark in Washington Street, and
he reported some progress in auditing of accounts, and said that
when presently his family should return to town for the winter,
he would see to the end of them, i.
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