Not to be seen, I believe, at least never seen by me in
any perfection, except in London only. From April to the end of
May; during those weeks you must be _here,_ and free: remember
that date. Will you come in Winter then, next Winter,--or when?
Ireland professed to know you by the Photograph too; which I
never yet can.--I wrote by last Packet: enough here. Your
friend Cunningham has not presented himself; shall be right
welcome when he does,--as all that in the least belong to you may
well hope to be. Adieu. Our love to you all.
Ever Yours,
T. Carlyle
CXX. Emerson to Carlyle
Concord, 30 April, 1847
My Dear Carlyle,--I have two good letters from you, and until now
you have had no acknowledgment. Especially I ought to have told
you how much pleasure your noble invitation in March gave me.
This pleasing dream of going to England dances before me
sometimes. It would be, I then fancy, that stimulation which my
capricious, languid, and languescent study needs. At home, no
man makes any proper demand on me, and the audience I address is
a handful of men and women too widely scattered than that they
can dictate to me that which they are justly entitled to say.
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