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* In the rough draft the following sentence comes in here "I
reckon myself a good beginning of a poet, very urgent and decided
in my bent, and in some coming millennium I shall yet sing."
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Little and Brown have just rendered me an account, by which it
appears that we are not quite so well off as was thought last
summer, when they said they had sold at auction the balance of
your books which had been lying unsold. It seems now that the
books supposed to be sold were not all taken, and are returned to
them; one hundred _Chartism,_ sixty-three _Past and Present._
Yet we are to have some eighty-three dollars ($83.68), which you
shall probably have by the next steamer.
Yours affectionately,
R.W. Emerson
CXVIII. Carlyle to Emerson
Chelsea, London, 2 March, 1847
Dear Emerson,--The Steamer goes tomorrow; I must, though in a
very dim condition, have a little word for you conveyed by it.
In the miscellaneous maw of that strange Steamer shall lie, among
other things, a friendly _word!_
Your very kind Letter lay waiting me here, some ten days ago;
doubly welcome, after so long a silence.
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