try me again, once; I think it will come almost gratis.  Steam and Iron are making all the Planet into one Village.—­A Mr. Dwight wrote to me about the dedicating of some German translations:  Yes. What are they or he?*—­Your Sartor is off through Kennet.  Could you send me two copies of the American Life of Schiller, if the thing is fit for making a present of, and easy to be got?  If not, do not mind it at all.—­Addio!

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* Mr. John S. Dwight, whose volume of Select Minor Poems from
the German of Goethe and Schiller, published in 1839, was
dedicated to Carlyle.   It was the third volume of Specimens of
Foreign Standard Literature, edited by George Ripley.   Beside Mr.
Dwight’s own excellent versions, it contained translations by Mr.
Bancroft, Dr. Hedge, Dr. Frothingham, and others.   For many years
Mr. Dwight rendered a notable public service as the editor of
Dwight’s Journal of Music,_—­a publication which did more than
any other to raise and to maintain high the standard of musical
taste and culture in America.
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XXXII.  Emerson to Carlyle

Concord, 13 January, 1839

My Dear Friend,—­I am not now in any Condition to write a letter, having neither the facts from the booksellers which you would know touching our future plans, nor yet a satisfactory account balanced and settled of our past dealings; and lastly, no time to write what I would say,—­as my poor lectures are in full course, and absorb all my wits; but as the “Royal William” will not wait, and as I have a hundred pounds to send on account of the sales of the French Revolution, I must steal a few minutes to send my salutation.  I have received all your four good letters:  and you are a good and generous man to write so many.  Two came on the 2d and 3d of January, and the last on the 9th.  If the bookselling Munroe had answered me yesterday, as he ought, I should be able to satisfy you as to the time when to expect our cargo of Miscellanies. The third and fourth volumes are now printing:  ’t is a fortnight since we began.  You shall have two hundred and fifty copies,—­I am not quite sure you can have more,—­bound, and entitled, and directed as you desire, at least according to the best ability of our printer as far as the typography is concerned, and we will speed the work as fast as we can; but as we have but a single copy of Fraser’s Magazine—­we do not get on rapidly.  The French Revolution was all sold more than a month since.  We should be glad of more copies, but the bookseller thinks not of enough copies to justify a new edition yet.  I should not be surprised, however, to see that some bold brother of the trade had undertaken it.  Now, what does your question point at in reference to your new edition, asking “if we want more”?  Could you send us out a part of your edition at American prices, and at the same time to your advantage?  I wish I knew the precise answer to this question, then perhaps I could keep all pirates out of our bay.