--But speak of
what you will, you are welcome to me. Once more I say, No other
voice in this wide waste world seems to my sad ear to be
_speaking_ at all at present. The more is the pity for us.
I forbid you to plague yourself any farther with those
Philadelphia or other Booksellers. If you could hinder them to
promulgate any copy of that frightful picture by Lawrence, or
indeed any picture at all, I had rather stand as a shadow than as
a falsity in the minds of my American friends: but this too we
are prepared to encounter. And as for the money of these men,--
if they will pay it, good and welcome; if they will not pay it,
let them keep it with what blessing there may be in it! I have
your noble offices in that and in other such matters already
unforgetably sure to me; and, in real fact, that is almost
exactly the whole of valuable that could exist for me in the
affair. Adieu, dear Friend. Write to me again; I will write
again at more leisure.
Yours always,
T. Carlyle
CII. Emerson to Carlyle
Concord, 15 September, 1845
My Dear Friend,--I have seen Furness of Philadelphia, who was,
last week, in Boston, and inquired of him what account I should
send you of the new Philadelphia edition.
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