alls and evening parties. They are all religious,
but hate the churches; they reject all the ways of living of
other men, but have none to offer in their stead. Perhaps, one
of these days, a great Yankee shall come, who will easily do the
unknown deed.

The booksellers have sent me accounts lately, but--I know not
why--no money. Little and Brown from January to July had sold
very few books. I inquired of them concerning the bill of
exchange on Fraser's Estate, which you mention, and they said it
had not been returned to them, but only some information, as I
think, demanded by Fraser's administrator, which they had sent,
and, as they heard nothing again, they suppose that it is allowed
and paid to you. Inform me on this matter.

Munroe & Co. allow some credits, but charge more debits for
binding, &c., and also allege few sales in the hard times. I
have got a good friend of yours, a banking man, to promise that
he will sift all the account and see if the booksellers have kept
their promises. But I have never yet got all the papers in
readiness for him. I am looking to see if I have matter for new
lectures, having left behind me last spring some half-promises in
New York. If you can remember it, tell me who writes about
Loyola and Xavier in the _Edinburgh._ Sterling's papers--if he
is near you--are all in Mr. Russell's hands.* I played my part
of Fadladeen with great rigor, and sent my results to Russell,
but have not now written to J. S.

Yours,
R.W.E.

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* Mr. A.L. Russell, who had been instrumental in procuring the
American edition of Sterling's _Poetical Works._
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LXXX. Carlyle to Emerson

Chelsea, London, 19 November, 1842

My Dear Emerson,--Your Letter finds me here today; busied with
many things, but not likely to be soon more at leisure;
wherefore I may as well give myself the pleasure of answering it
on the spot. The Fraser Bill by Brown and Little has come all
right; the Dumfries Banker apprises me lately that he has got
the cash into his hands. Pray do not pester yourself with these
Bookseller unintelligibilities: I suppose their accounts are all
reasonably correct, the cheating, such as it is, done according
to rule: what signifies it at any rate? I am no longer in any
vital want of money; alas, the want that presses far heavier on
me is a want of faculty, a want of _sense;_ and the feeling of
that renders one comparatively very indifferent to money!