g is up. They say Sebastopol is took,
and the Rushans run away.'--_A la bonne heure_: but won't they come back
again, think you?

On the whole I say, when you get your little Suffolk cottage, you must
have in it a 'chamber in the wall' for me, _plus_ a pony that can trot,
and a cow that gives good milk: with these outfits we shall make a pretty
rustication now and then, not wholly _Latrappish_, but only _half_, on
much easier terms than here; and I shall be right willing to come and try
it, I for one party.--Meanwhile, I hope the Naseby matter is steadily
going ahead; sale _completed_; and even the _monument_ concern making
way. Tell me a little how that and other matters are. If you are at
home, a line is rapidly conveyed hither, steam all the way: after the
beginning of the next week, I am at Chelsea, and (I dare say) there is a
fire in the evenings now to welcome you there. Shew face in some way or
other.

And so adieu; for my hour of riding is at hand.

Yours ever truly,
T. CARLYLE.

_To E. B. Cowell_.

31 GREAT PORTLAND STREET, P. PLACE.
[1856.]

MY DEAR COWELL,

. . . You never say a word about your Hafiz. Has that fallen for the
present, Austin not daring to embark in it in these days of war, when
nothing that is not warlike sells except Macaulay? Don't suppose I bandy
compliments; but, with moderate care, any such Translation of such a
writer as Hafiz by you into pure, sweet, and partially measured Prose
must be better than what I am doing for Jami; {304} whose ingenuous
prattle I am stilting into too Miltonic verse. This I am very sure of.
But it is done.

[_Jan_. 1856.]

MY DEAR COWELL,

I send you a sketch of Jami's Life, which cut, correct, and annotate as
you like. Where there was so little to tell I have brought in all the
fine Names and extra bits I could to give it a little sparkle. There is
very little after all; I have spread it over Paper to give you room to
note _upon_ it. Only take care not to lose either these, or Yesterday's,
Papers--for my Terror at going over the Ground!

You must put in the corrected Notice about the Sultan Hussein, both in
the Memoir and in the Note to the Poem. The latter will have room for at
least four (I think five) lines of note Type: which you must fill, and
not overflow: 'Strong without rage, etc.'

I feel guilty at taking up your Time and Thoughts: and also at Dressing
myself so in your Plumes. But I mean to say a word about this, [Greek