... The night _before_
Milnes's morning, I had furthermore seen your Manchester
Correspondent, Ireland,--an old Edinborough acquaintance too, as
I found. A solid, dark, broad, rather heavy man; full of
energy, and broad sagacity and practicality;--infinitely well
affected to the man Emerson too. It was our clear opinion that
you might come at any time with ample assurance of "succeeding,"
so far as wages went, and otherwise; that you ought to come, and
must, and would,--as he, Ireland, would farther write to you.
There is only one thing I have to add of my own, and beg you to
bear in mind,--a date merely. _Videlicet,_ That the time for
lecturing to the London West-End, I was given everywhere to
understand, is _from the latter end of April_ (or say April
altogether) _to the end of May:_ this is a fixed Statistic fact,
all men told me: of this you are in all arrangements to keep
mind. For it will actually do your heart good to look into the
faces, and speak into minds, of really Aristocratic Persons,--
being one yourself, you Sinner,--and perhaps indeed this will be
the greatest of all the _novelties_ that await you in your
voyage.
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