1834-1872
"To my friend I write a letter, and from him I receive a letter.It is a spiritual gift, worthy of him to give, and of me toreceive."—Emerson
"What the writer did actually mean, the thing he then thought of,the thing he then was."—Carlyle
LXXVI. Emerson. Concord, 1 July, 1842. Remittance of L51.—
Alcott.—Editorship of the Dial.—Projected essay on Poetry.—
Stearns Wheeler.
LXXVII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 19 July, 1842. Acknowledgment ofremittance.—Change of publishers.—Work on Cromwell.—Sterling.—Alcott.
LXXVIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 29 August, 1842. Impotence ofspeech.—Heart-sick for his own generation.—Transcendentalism ofthe Dial.
LXXIX. Emerson. Concord, 15 October, 1842. The coming book onCromwell.—Alcott.—The Dial and its sins.—Booksellers'accounts.
LXXX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 17 November, 1842. Accounts.—Alcott.—
Sect-founders.—Man the Reformer.—James Stephen.—Gambardella.
LXXXI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 11 March, 1843. Past and Present.—
How to prevent pirated republication.—The Dial.—Alcott's
English Tail.
LXXXII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 1 April, 1843. Copy of Past and
Present forwarded.—Prospect of pirated edition.
LXXXIII. Emerson. Concord, 29 April, 1843. Carlyle's star.—Lectures on "New England" at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and NewYork.—Politics in Washington.—Past and Present.—Effect ofcheap press in America.—Reprint of the book.—The Dial doesnot pay expenses.
Extract from Emerson's Diary concerning Past and Present.
LXXXIV. Carlyle. 27 August, 1843. Introduction of Mr. Macready.
LXXXV. Emerson. Concord, 30 October, 1843. Remittance of L25.—
Piratical reprint of Past and Present.—E.P. Clark, a
Carlylese, to be asked to take charge of accounts.—Henry James.
—Ellery Channing's Poems.
LXXXVI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 31 October, 1843. Summer wanderings.—The Dial at the London Library.—Growth of Emerson's publicin England.—Piratical reprint of his Essays in London.—ofPast and Present in America.—Criticism of Carlyle in theDial.—Dr. Russell.—Theodore Parker.—Book about Cromwell.—Commons Journals.
LXXXVII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 17 November, 1843. Receipt of L25.—
E.P. Clark.—Henry James.—Channing's Poems.—Reverend W.H.
Channing.—"Progress of the Species."—Emerson.—The Cromwell
business.
LXXXVIII. Emerson. Concord, 31 December, 1843. Macready.—
Railroad to Concord.—Margaret Fuller's Review of Sterling's
Poems in the Dial.—Remittance of L32.
LXXXIX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 31 January, 1844. Remittance receivedand made.—Criticism of Emerson by Gilfillan.—John Sterling.—Cromwell book.—Hexameters from Voss.
XC. Emerson. Concord, 29 February, 1844. Acknowledgment ofremittance.—A new collection of Essays.—Faith in Writers as aclass.—Remittance of L36.—Proposal concerning publication inAmerica of Cromwell.
XCI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 3 April, 1844. Acknowledgment ofremittance.—Piratical reprints.—Professor Ferrier.
XCII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 5 August, 1844. Fear for Sterling.—
Tennyson.—Work on Cromwell frightful.