TC-HL, 13 Dec. Addr: Steamboat Pier / Battersea Bridge. MS: Huntington Lib. Quot: Larkin, BQR 44.

1. The next day.

2. Adolf Stieler (1775–1836; see TC to JN, 31 Oct. 1856); TC refers to his Deutschland as an “excellent Map in 25 Pieces” (Works 14:352).

3. Of Critical and Miscellaneous Essays; it had been advertised as ready for 4 Dec., Athenaeum28 Nov. (see Chapman & Hall's Advertisements). Larkin recalled: “I was much pleased at the time with these few emphatic words, for the summary referred to actually extended to seventeen pages; nor could I honestly condense it into less. The prescribed limit … was ‘seven or eight pages at the outside’; but I never could manage it, without leaving out much which I felt really ought to be indicated. … I ought to say that, after the first index and summary of Sterling [see TC to HL, 30 Jan.], Carlyle never once saw any of them until they were in print, and, I believe (excepting ‘Sartor’. . . ), never once altered, or suggested the altering of a word; so that the responsibility of what I wrote rested entirely with me” (Larkin, BQR 44–45).