In good truth,
it is a wearied man, at least a dreadfully slothful and
slumberous man, eager for _sleep_ in any quantity, that now
addresses you! Be thankful for a few half-dreaming words, till
we awake again.
As to your visit to us, there is but one thing to be said and
repeated: That a prophet's chamber is ready for you in Chelsea,
and a brotherly and sisterly welcome, on whatever day at whatever
hour you arrive: this, which is all of the Practical that I can
properly take charge of, is to be considered a given quantity
always. With regard to Lecturing, &c., Ireland, with whom I
suppose you to be in correspondence, seems to have awakened all
this North Country into the fixed hope of hearing you,--and God
knows they have need enough to hear a man with sense in his
head;--it was but the other day I read in one of their
Newspapers, "We understand that Mr. Emerson the distinguished &c.
is certainly &c. this winter," all in due Newspaper phrase, and I
think they settled your arrival for "October" next. May it prove
so! But on the whole there _is_ no doubt of your coming; that
is a great fact.
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