The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.

1834-1872
To my friend I write a letter, and from him I receive a letter. It is a spiritual gift, worthy of him to give, and of me to receive. —Emerson
What the writer did actually mean, the thing he then thought of, the thing he then was. —Carlyle
LXXVI. Emerson. Concord, 1 July, 1842. Remittance of L51.— Alcott.—Editorship of the Dial. —Projected essay on Poetry.— Stearns Wheeler.
LXXVII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 19 July, 1842. Acknowledgment of remittance.—Change of publishers.—Work on Cromwell. — Sterling.—Alcott.
LXXVIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 29 August, 1842. Impotence of speech.—Heart-sick for his own generation.—Transcendentalism of the Dial.
LXXIX. Emerson. Concord, 15 October, 1842. The coming book on Cromwell.—Alcott.—The Dial and its sins.—Booksellers' accounts.
LXXX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 17 November, 1842. Accounts.—Alcott.— Sect-founders.—Man the Reformer.—James Stephen.—Gambardella.
LXXXI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 11 March, 1843. Past and Present. — How to prevent pirated republication.—The Dial. —Alcott's English Tail.
LXXXII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 1 April, 1843. Copy of Past and Present forwarded.—Prospect of pirated edition.
LXXXIII. Emerson. Concord, 29 April, 1843. Carlyle's star.— Lectures on New England at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.—Politics in Washington.— Past and Present. —Effect of cheap press in America.—Reprint of the book.—The Dial does not pay expenses.
Extract from Emerson's Diary concerning Past and Present.