pieces.
Sterling is gone to Italy for the winter since I left town;
swift as a flash! I cannot teach him the great art of _sitting
still;_ his fine qualities are really like to waste for want
of that.

I read your paragraph to Miss Martineau; she received it, as she
was bound, with a good grace. But I doubt, I doubt, O Ralph
Waldo Emerson, thou hast not been sufficiently ecstatic about
her,--thou graceless exception, confirmatory of a rule! In truth
there _are_ bores, of the first and of all lower magnitudes.
Patience and shuffle the cards.

XXVIII. Emerson to Carlyle

Concord, 17 October, 1838

My Dear Friend,--I am quite uneasy that I do not hear from you.
On the 21st of July I wrote to you and enclosed a remittance of
L50 by a Bill of Exchange on Baring Brothers, drawn by Chandler,
Howard, & Co., which was sent in the steamer "Royal William." On
the 2d of August I received your letter of inquiry respecting our
edition of the _Miscellanies,_ and wrote a few days later in
reply, that we could send you out two or three hundred copies of
our first two volumes, in sheets, at eighty-nine cents per copy
of two volumes, and the small additional price of the new title-
page. I said also that I would wait until I heard from you
before commencing the printing of the last two volumes of the
_Miscellanies,_ and, if you desired it, would print any number of
copies with a title-page for London. This letter went in a
steamer--he "Great Western" probably--about the 10th or 12th of
August. (Perhaps I misremember the names [of the steamers], and
the first should be last.) I have heard nothing from you since.
I trust my letters have not miscarried. (A third was sent also
by another channel inclosing a duplicate of the Bill of
Exchange.) With more fervency, I trust that all goes well in the
house of my friend,--and I suppose that you are absent on some
salutary errand of repairs and recreation. _Use, I pray you,
your earliest_ hour in certifying me of the facts.

One word more in regard to business. I believe I expressed some
surprise, in the July letter, that the booksellers should have no
greater balance for us at this settlement. I have since studied
the account better, and see that we shall not be disappointed in
the year of obtaining at least the sum first promised,--seven
hundred and sixty dollars; but the whole expense of the edition
is paid out of the copies first sold, and our profits depend on