out L3,000 on getting the world instructed in that manner:  it is very curious to see.—­Alas! the bottom of the sheet!  Take my hurried but kindest thanks for the prospect of your second Teufelsdrockh:  the first too is now in my possession; Brother John went to the Post-Office, and worked it out for a ten shillings.  It is a beautiful little Book; and a Preface to it such as no kindest friend could have improved.  Thank my kind Editor** very heartily from me.

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* Sir William Molesworth.   In his Autobiography Mill gives an
interesting account of the founding of this Review, and his
quasi-editorial relations to it.   “In the beginning,” he says,
“it did not, as a whole, by any means represent my opinion.”

** Dr. Le-Baron Russell
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My wife was in Scotland in summer, driven thither by ill health; she is stronger since her return, though not yet strong; she sends over to Concord her kindest wishes.  If I fly to the Alps or the Ocean, her Mother and she must keep one another company, we think, till there be better news of me.  You are to thank Dr. Channing also for his valued gift.  I read the Discourse, and other friends of his read it, with great estimation; but the end of that black question lies beyond my ken.  I suppose, as usual, Might and Right will have to make themselves synonymous in some way.  CANST and SHALT, if they are very well understood, mean the same thing under this Sun of ours.  Adieu, my dear Emerson. Gehab’ Dich wohl! Many affectionate regards to the Lady Wife:  it is far within the verge of Probabilities that I shall see her face, and eat of her bread, one day.  But she must not get sick!  It is a dreadful thing, sickness; really a thing which I begin frequently to think criminal—­at least in myself.  Nay, in myself it really is criminal; wherefore I determine to be well one day.

Good be with you and Yours. 
                      T. Carlyle

As to Goethe and your Friend:  I know not anything out of Goethe’s own works (which have many notices in them) that treats specially of those ten years.  Doubtless your Friend knows Jordens’s Lexicon (which dates all the writings, for one thing), the Conversations-Lexicon Supplement, and such like.  There is an essay by one Schubarth which has reputation; but it is critical and ethical mainly.  The Letters to Zelter, and the Letters to Schiller, will do nothing for those years, but are essential to see.  Perhaps in some late number of the Zeitgenossen there may be something?  Blackguard Heine is worth very little; Mentzel is duller, decenter, not much wiser.  A very curious Book is Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe, just published.  No room more!*