CXXXVIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 6 December, 1848. Long silence.--
Questions concerning Indian meal.--Death of Charles Buller, and
of Lord Ashburton's mother.--Neuberg and others.
CXXXIX. Emerson. Boston, 23 January, 1849. John Carlyle's
translation of the Inferno.--Indian corn.--Clough's Bothie.
CXL. Carlyle. Chelsea, 19 April, 1849. Indian corn from
Concord; trial of it, reflections upon it.--No writing at
present.--Macaulay's _History._--Political outlook.--Clough.--
Sterling Club.
CXLI. Carlyle. Scotsbrig, 13 August, 1849. Indian corn again.--
Tour in Ireland.--Letter from Miss Fuller.--Message to Thoreau.
CXLII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 19 July, 1850. A year's silence.--
Latter Day Pamphlets.--Divergence from Emerson.--_Representative
Men._--Prescott lionized.
CXLIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 14 November, 1850. "Eighteen million
bores."--Emerson on Latter Day Pamphlets.--Autumn Journey.--
Disordered nerves.
CXLIV. Carlyle. Chelsea, 8 July, 1851. Appeal for news.--_Life
of Sterling._--Crystal Palace.--Bossu's _Journal,_ Bartram's
_Travels._--Margaret Fuller.--Mazzini.--Dr. Carlyle.
CXLV. Emerson. Concord, 28 July, 1851. Story of the year.--
Journey in the West.--Memoir of Margaret Fuller.--_Life of
Sterling._--English friends.
CXLVI. Carlyle. Great Malvern, 25 August, 1851. _Life of
Sterling._--Bossu's _Journal._--Water-cure.--Twisleton.--Milnes
married.--Tennyson.--Browning on Miss Fuller.
CXLVII. Emerson. Concord, 14 April, 1852. Browning's
Reminiscences of Margaret Fuller.--Books on the Indians.--_Life
of Sterling._
CXLVIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 7 May, 1852. Correspondence must be
revived.--Margaret Fuller.--Memoirs of her.
CXLIX. Emerson. Concord, May, 1852. Relations with Carlyle.--
Carlyle's genius and his own.--Margaret Fuller.
CL. Carlyle. Chelsea, 25 June, 1852. Emerson and himself.--
Reading about Frederick the Great.
CLI. Emerson. Concord, 19 April, 1853. Excuses for not
writing.--Chapter on Fate.--Visit to the West.--Conditions of
American life.--Clough.
CLII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 13 May, 1853. Blessing of letters from
Emerson.--Coming on of old age.--Modern democracy.--Visit to
Germany.--Still reading about Fritz.
CLIIa. Emerson. Concord, 10 August, 1853. Slowness to write.--
Regret at Clough's return to England.--Miss Bacon.--Carlyle's
visit to Germany.--Thackeray in America.--New York and its society.
CLIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 9 September, 1853. Regrets for old
days.--Not left town.--A new top story.--Miss Bacon, her Quixotic
enterprise.--Clough.--Thackeray.--To Concord?
CLIV. Emerson. Concord, 11 March, 1854. Laurence, the artist.--
Reading Latter Day Pamphlets.--Death of Carlyle's, and of
Emerson's mother.--Miss Bacon.--His English Notes.--Lecturing
tour in the West.--Speed _Frederick!_
CLV. Carlyle. Chelsea, 8 April, 1854. Thankful for Emerson's
letter.--Death of his mother.--Makes no way in Prussian History.
--The insuperable difficulty with _Frederick._--Literature in
these days.--Emerson's picture of America.--Battle of Freedom and
Slavery.--Emerson's book on England desired.--Miss Bacon.
CLVI. Emerson. Concord, 17 April, 1855. Excuses for not
writing.--Unchanged feeling for Carlyle.--The American.--True
measure of life.--Musings of indolence.
CLVII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 13 May, 1855. Emerson's letters
indispensable; his complete understanding of Carlyle.--A grim
and lonely year.--Never had such a business as _Frederick._--
Frederick himself.--"Balaklava."--Persistence of the English.--
Urges Emerson to print his book on England.
CLVIII. Emerson. Concord, 6 May, 1856. Letter-writing.--Leaves
of Grass.--Mrs. ---.
CLIX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 20 July, 1856. Emerson's letter
welcome.--Life a burden.--Going to Scotland.--_Life of Frederick_
to go to press.--Mrs. ---.--Miss Bacon.--Browning.
CLX. Carlyle. The Gill, Cummertrees, Annan, 28 August, 1856.
The debt of America to Emerson.--_English Traits_ will be
welcome.--Grateful for whatever Emerson may have said of
himself.--In retreat in Annan.
CLXI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 2 December, 1856. Close of negotiations
for printing a complete edition of his Works in America.--
_English Traits._--Its excellence.
CLXII. Emerson. Concord, 17 May, 1858. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Longworth.--Inquires for the _Frederick._--Desires a _liber
veritatis._--Friendship of old gentlemen.
CLXIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 2 June, 1858. Emerson's letter and
friends welcome.--First two volumes of Frederick just ready.--
Ugliness of the job.--Occasional tone of Emerson in the
Magazines.--Health.--Separation of Dickens from his wife.
CLXIII.* Carlyle. Chelsea, 9 April, 1859. Copy of _Frederick_
sent to Emerson.--Nearly choked by the job.--Self-pity.--
Emerson's speech on Burns.
CLXIV. Emerson. Concord, I May, 1859. Arrival of first volumes
of _Frederick._--Illusion of children.--His own children.--A
correspondent of twenty-five years not to be disused.