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

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

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Title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.
Author: Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Release Date: October 6, 2004 [EBook #13660]
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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS CARLYLE AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON 1834-1872
VOLUME II

"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 to receive."--Emerson
"What the writer did actually mean, the thing he then thought of, the thing he then was."--Carlyle

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II
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 of remittance.--Change of publishers.--Work on _Cromwell._-- Sterling.--Alcott.
LXXVIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 29 August, 1842. Impotence of speech.--Heart-sick for his own generation.--Transcendentalism of the _Dial._
LXXIX. Emerson. Concord, 15 October, 1842. The coming book on Cromwell.--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 New York.--Politics in Washington.--_Past and Present._--Effect of cheap press in America.--Reprint of the book.--The Dial does not 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 public in England.--Piratical reprint of his Essays in London.--of Past and Present in America.--Criticism of Carlyle in the Dial.--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 received and made.--Criticism of Emerson by Gilfillan.--John Sterling.-- Cromwell book.--Hexameters from Voss.
XC. Emerson. Concord, 29 February, 1844. Acknowledgment of remittance.--A new collection of Essays.--Faith in Writers as a class.--Remittance of L36.--Proposal concerning publication in America of _Cromwell._
XCI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 3 April, 1844. Acknowledgment of remittance.--Piratical reprints.--Professor Ferrier.
XCII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 5 August, 1844. Fear for Sterling.-- Tennyson.--Work on Cromwell frightful.
XCIII. Emerson. Concord, 1 September, 1844. Sends proof sheets of new book of Essays.--Sterling.
XCIV. Carlyle. Chelsea, 29 September, 1844. Death of Sterling.
XCV. Emerson. Concord, 30 September, 1844. Remittance of L30-- Sterling.--Tennyson.--Regrets having troubled Carlyle about proof-sheets.--Birth of Edward Emerson.--Purchase of land on Walden Pond.
XCVI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 3 November, 1844. Thanks for remittance.--London edition of _Essays,_ Second Series.-- Criticism on them.
XCVII. Emerson. Concord, 31 December, 1844. Sterling's death.-- London edition of _Essays._--Carlyle's Preface and strictures.
XCVIII. Emerson. Concord, 31 January, 1845. Bargain about Miscellanies with Carey and Hart.--Portrait of Carlyle desired.--E.P. Clark's "Illustrations of Carlyle".
XCIX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 16 February, 1845. Bargain with Carey & Co.--Portrait.--Emerson's public in England.--Work on Cromwell.
C. Emerson. Concord, 29 June, 1845. Death of Mr. Carey.-- Portrait.--His own occupations.--Preparing to print _Poems._-- Lectures in prospect.
CI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 29 August, 1845. _Cromwell's Letters and Speeches_ finished.--Nature of the book.--New book from Emerson welcome.--Imperfection of all modes of utterance.--Forbids further plague with booksellers.
CII. Emerson. Concord, 15 September, 1845. Payment sure from Carey and Hart.--Lectures on "Representative Men".
CIII. Emerson. Concord, 30 September, 1845. Congratulations on completion of Cromwell book.--Clark.
CIV. Carlyle. Chelsea, 11 November, 1845. Cromwell book sent.-- Visit to Scotland.--Changes there.--His mother.--Impatience with the times.--Weariness with the Cromwell book.--Visit to the Ashburtons.
CV. Carlyle. Chelsea, 3 January, 1846. Thanks to Mr. Hart, Mr. Furness, and others.--_Cromwell proves popular.--New letters of Cromwell.
CVI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 3 February, 1846. Second edition of Cromwell.--Emerson to do what he will concerning republication.-- Anti-Corn-Law.--Aristocracy and Millocracy.
CVII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 3 March, 1846. Cromwell lumber.--Sheets of new edition sent.-Essay on Emerson in an Edinburgh Magazine.-- Mr. Everett.--Jargon in Newspapers and Parliament.
CVIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 18 April, 1846. Arrangements concerning reprint of _Cromwell._--Promise of Daguerrotype likeness.--Fifty years old.--Rides.--Emerson's voice wholly human.--Blessedness in work.
CIX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 30 April, 1846. Photograph sent.-- Arrangements with Wiley and Putnam for republication of Cromwell and other books.--Photographs of Emerson and himself. --Remembrance of Craigenputtock.
CX. Emerson.