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

New letters, except they expressly
contradict me, shall go at once into the back apartment, or
Appendix, in future.
The Printers have sent me some five or six sheets, they send me
hitherto a sheet daily; but perhaps there are not above three or
two in a perfect state: so I trouble you with none of them by
this Packet. But by next Packet (3d of March), unless I hear to
the contrary, I will send you all the Sheets that are ready; and
so by the following Packets, till we are out of it;--that you, on
the scene there, may do with them once for all whatsoever you
like. If _nothing_ can be done with them, believe me I shall be
very glad of that result. But if you can so much as oblige any
honest Bookseller of your or my acquaintance by the gift of them,
let it be done; let Pirates and ravenous Bipeds of Prey
be excluded from participating: that of itself will be a
comfortable and a proper thing!--You are hereby authorized to
promulgate in any way you please, That the Second Edition will be
augmented, corrected, as aforesaid; and that Mr.


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