If all is _right,_ you
should, by the time this Letter arrives, be receiving or have
received your thirteenth Volume, last of the _Miscellanies._
Adieu, my Friend.
Ever truly yours,
T. Carlyle
CLXXVII. Carlyle to Emerson
Chelsea, 4 January, 1870
Dear Emerson,--A month ago or more I wrote, by the same post, to
you and to Norton about those Books for Harvard College; and in
late days have been expecting your joint answer. From Norton
yesternight I receive what is here copied for your perusal; it
has come round by Florence as you see, and given me real pleasure
and instruction. From you, who are possibly also away from home,
I have yet nothing; but expect now soon to have a few words.
There did arrive, one evening lately, your two pretty _volumes_
of _Collected Works,_ a pleasant salutation from you--which set
me upon reading again what I thought I knew well before:--but the
Letter is still to come.
Norton's hints are such a complete instruction to me that I see
my way straight through the business, and might, by Note of
"Bequest" and memorandum for the Barings, finish it in half an
hour: nevertheless I will wait for your Letter, and punctually
do nothing till your directions too are before me.
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