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We shall send
you no other such.
I was lately inquired of again by an agent of a huge Boston
society of young men, whether Mr. Carlyle would not come to
America and read Lectures, on some terms which they could
propose. I advised them to make him an offer, and a better one
than they had in view. Joy and Peace to you in your new freedom.
--R.W.E.

CXIV. Carlyle to Emerson
Chelsea, 17 July, 1846
Dear Emerson,--Since I wrote last to you, I think, with the
Wiley-and-Putnam Covenant enclosed,--the Photograph, after some
days of loitering at the Liverpool Custom-house, came safe to
hand. Many thanks to you for this punctuality: this poor
Shadow, it is all you could do at present in that matter!
But it must not rest there, no. This Image is altogether
unsatisfactory, illusive, and even in some measure tragical
to me! First of all, it is a bad Photograph; no _eyes_
discernible, at least one of the eyes not, except in rare
favorable lights then, alas, Time itself and Oblivion must have
been busy.


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