CXVI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 18 December, 1846. Long silence.--
Disconsolate two months in Scotland.--Visit to Ireland.--A
country cast into the melting-pot.--O'Connell.--Young Ireland.--
Returned home sad.--Miss Fuller; estimate of her.--What she
thought of Carlyle.--Emerson's Poems.

CXVII. Emerson. Concord, 31 January, 1847. Margaret Fuller's
visit to Chelsea.--Speculates on going to England to lecture.--
His _Poems._

CXVIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 2 March, 1847. Visit to Hampshire.--
Emerson's _Poems._--Prospect of Emerson's Lectures in England.--
Miss Fuller.

CXIX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 18 March, 1847. Remittance received.--
Alexander Ireland.--Advice concerning lectures.

CXX. Emerson. Concord, 30 April, 1847. Prospect of lecturing in
England.--Works in garden and orchard.

CXXI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 18 May, 1847. Thoreau's Lecture on
Carlyle.--Visit from E.R. Hoar.--Emerson's visit to England.

CXXII. Emerson. Concord, 4 June, 1847. Prospect of visit to
England.--F.H. Hedge.

CXXIII. Emerson. Concord, 31 July, 1847. Visit to England
decided upon.--Portrait of Sterling.