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Since I am
not to see you from year to year, is there never an Englishman
who knows you well, who comes to America, and whom you can send
to me to answer all my questions? Health and love and joy to you
and yours.
--R.W. Emerson


XCVIII. Emerson to Carlyle
Concord, 31 January, 1845
My Dear Carlyle,--Carey and Hart of Philadelphia, booksellers,
have lately proposed to buy the remainder of our Boston edition
of your _Miscellanies,_ or to give you a bonus for sanctioning an
edition of the same, which they propose to publish. On inquiry,
I have found that only thirteen entire sets of four volumes
remain to us unsold; whilst we have 226 copies of Volume III.,
and 243 copies of Volume IV., remaining.
In replying to Mr. Carey, I proposed that, besides the proposed
bonus, he should buy of me these old volumes, which are not bound
but folded, at 25 cents a volume, (Monroe having roughly computed
the cost at 40 cents a volume,) but this he declines to do, and
offers fifty pounds sterling for his bonus.


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