--R.W. Emerson
CIV. Carlyle to Emerson
Chelsea, 11 November, 1846
My Dear Emerson,--I have had two Letters from you since I wrote
any; the latest of them was lying here for me when I returned,
about three weeks ago; the other I had received in Scotland: it
was only the last that demanded a special answer;--which, alas, I
meant faithfully to give it, but did not succeed! With meet
despatch I made the Bookseller get ready for you a Copy of the
unpublished _Cromwell_ Book; hardly complete as yet, it was
nevertheless put together, and even some kind of odious rudiments
of a _Portrait_ were bound up with it; and the Packet inscribed
with your address was put into Wiley and Putnam's hands in time
for the Mail Steamer;--and I hope has duly arrived? If it have
not, pray set the Booksellers a-hunting. Wiley and Putnam was
the Carrier's name; this is all the indication I can give, but
this, I hope, if indeed any prove needful, will be enough. One
may hope you have the Book already in your hands, a fortnight
before this reaches you, a month before any other Copy can reach
America.
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