have got a good friend of yours, a banking man, to promise that
he will sift all the account and see if the booksellers have kept
their promises. But I have never yet got all the papers in
readiness for him. I am looking to see if I have matter for new
lectures, having left behind me last spring some half-promises in
New York. If you can remember it, tell me who writes about
Loyola and Xavier in the _Edinburgh._ Sterling's papers--if he
is near you--are all in Mr. Russell's hands.* I played my part
of Fadladeen with great rigor, and sent my results to Russell,
but have not now written to J. S.

Yours,
R.W.E.

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* Mr. A.L. Russell, who had been instrumental in procuring the
American edition of Sterling's _Poetical Works._
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LXXX. Carlyle to Emerson

Chelsea, London, 19 November, 1842

My Dear Emerson,--Your Letter finds me here today; busied with
many things, but not likely to be soon more at leisure;
wherefore I may as well give myself the pleasure of answering it
on the spot. The Fraser Bill by Brown and Little has come all