So give my thanks and true affectionate remembrance to Jane Carlyle, and my regards also to Dr. Carlyle, whose precise address please also to send me.

Ever your loving
                  R.W.E.

The address at the top of this note is the best for the present, as I mean to make this my centre.

CXXVIII.  Carlyle to Emerson

Chelsea, 13 November, 1847

Dear Emerson,—­Your Book-parcels were faithfully sent off, directly after your departure:  in regard to one of them I had a pleasant visit from the proprietor in person,—­the young Swedenborgian Doctor, whom to my surprise I found quite an agreeable, accomplished secular young gentleman, much given to “progress of the species,” &c., &c.; from whom I suppose you have yourself heard.  The wandering umbrella, still short of an owner, hangs upon its peg here, without definite outlook.  Of yourself there have come news, by your own Letter, and by various excerpts from Manchester Newspapers. Gluck zu!—­

This Morning I received the Enclosed, and send it off to you without farther response.  Mudie, if I mistake not, is some small Bookseller in the Russell-Square region; pray answer him, if you think him worthy of answer.  A dim suspicion haunts me that perhaps he was the Republisher (or Pirate) of your first set of Essays: but probably he regards this as a mere office of untutored friendship on his part.  Or possibly I do the poor man wrong by misremembrance?  Chapman could tell.

I am sunk deep here, in effete Manuscripts, in abstruse meditations, in confusions old and new; sinking, as I may describe myself, through stratum after stratum of the Inane,—­ down to one knows not what depth!  I unfortunately belong to the Opposition Party in many points, and am in a minority of one.  To keep silence, therefore, is among the principal duties at present.

We had a call from Bancroft, the other evening.  A tough Yankee man; of many worthy qualities more tough than musical; among which it gratified me to find a certain small under-current of genial humor, or as it were hidden laughter, not noticed heretofore.

My Wife and all the rest of us are well; and do all salute you with our true wishes, and the hope to have you here again before long.  Do not bother yourself with other than voluntary writing to me, while there is so much otherwise that you are obliged to write.  If on any point you want advice, information, or other help that lies within the limits of my strength, command me, now and always.  And so Good be with you; and a happy meeting to us soon again.

Yours ever truly,
            T. Carlyle

CXXIX.  Carlyle to Emerson

Chelsea, 30 November, 1847

Dear Emerson,—­Here is a word for you from Miss Fuller; I send you the Cover also, though I think there is little or nothing in that.  It contained another little Note for Mazzini; who is wandering in foreign parts, on paths unknown to me at present.  Pray send my regards to Miss Fuller, when you write.