Adieu, my friend; all
blessings be with you always.
Yours ever truly,
T. Carlyle
XC. Emerson to Carlyle
Concord, 29 February, 1844
My Dear Carlyle,--I received by the last steamer your letter, and
its prefixed order for one hundred and twenty-one dollars, which
order I sent to Ward, who turned it at once into money. Thanks,
dear friend, for your care and activity, which have brought me
this pleasing and most unlooked for result. And I beg you, if
you know any family representative of Mr. Fraser, to express my
sense of obligation to that departed man. I feel a kindness not
without some wonder for those good-natured five hundred
Englishmen who could buy and read my miscellany. I shall not
fail to send them a new collection, which I hope they will like
better. My faith in the Writers, as an organic class, increases
daily, and in the possibility to a faithful man of arriving at
statements for which he shall not feel responsible, but which
shall be parallel with nature. Yet without any effort I fancy I
make progress also in the doctrine of Indifferency, and am
certain and content that the truth can very well spare me, and
have itself spoken by another without leaving it or me the worse.
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