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notion of your success or failure in England, more than your two letters have furnished. Can t you send a fair sample both of young and of old England s criticism, if there is any printed ? Alcott and [Ellery] Channing are equally greedy with myself.

HENRY THOKEAU.

C. T. Jackson takes the Quarterly (new one), and will lend it to us. Are you not going to send your wife some news of your good or ill success by the newspapers ?

TO R. W. EMERSON (iN ENGLAND).

CONCORD, December 29, 1847.

MY DEAR FRIEND, I thank you for your letter. I was very glad to get it; and I am glad again to write to you. However slow the steamer, no time intervenes between the writing and the reading of thoughts, but they come freshly to the most distant port. I am here still, and very glad to be here, and shall not trouble you with any complaints because I do not fill my place better. I have had many good hours in the chamber at the head of the stairs, a solid time, it seems to me. Next week I am going to give an account to the Lyceum of my expedition to Maine. Theodore Parker lectures to-night. We have had Whipple on Genius,