Adieu, dear Emerson; good be with you always. Hoar gave me your
_American_ Poems: thanks. _Vale et me ama._
--T. Carlyle
CXXII. Emerson to Carlyle
Concord, 4 June, 1847
Dear Carlyle,--I have just got your friendliest letter of May 18,
with its varied news and new invitations. Really you are a
dangerous correspondent with your solid and urgent ways of
speaking. No affairs and no studies of mine, I fear, will be
able to make any head against these bribes. Well, I will adorn
the brow of the coming months with this fine hope; then if the
rich God at last refuses the jewel, no doubt he will give
something better--to both of us. But thinking on this project
lately, I see one thing plainly, that I must not come to London
as a lecturer. If the plan proceed, I will come and see you,--
thankful to Heaven for that mercy, should such a romance looking
reality come to pass,--I will come and see you and Jane Carlyle,
and will hear what you have to say. You shall even show me, if
you will, such other men and women as will suffer themselves to
be seen and heard, asking for nothing again.
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