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* The engraved portrait in the first volume of this
Correspondence is from a photograph taken from this daguerrotype.
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CX. Emerson to Carlyle
Concord, 14 May, 1846
Dear Friend,--I daily expect the picture, and wonder--so long as
I have wished it--I had never asked it before. I was in Boston
the other day, and went to the best reputed Daguerreotypist, but
though I brought home three transcripts of my face, the house-
mates voted them rueful, supremely ridiculous. I must sit again;
or, as true Elizabeth Hoar said, I must not sit again, not being
of the right complexion which Daguerre and iodine delight in. I
am minded to try once more, and if the sun will not take me, I
must sit to a good crayon sketcher, Mr. Cheney, and send you
his draught....
Good rides to you and the longest escapes from London streets. I
too have a new plaything, the best I ever had,--a wood-lot. Last
fall I bought a piece of more than forty acres, on the border of
a little lake half a mile wide and more, called Walden Pond,--a
place to which my feet have for years been accustomed to bring me
once or twice a week at all seasons.
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