Ever yours,
T. Carlyle
Extracts from Emerson's Diary
October, 1847
"I found at Liverpool, after a couple of days, a letter which had
been seeking me, from Carlyle, addressed to 'R.W.E. on the
instant when he lands in England,' conveying the heartiest
welcome and urgent invitation to house and hearth. And finding
that I should not be wanted for a week in the Lecture-rooms I
came down to London on Monday, and, at ten at night, the door was
opened by Jane Carlyle, and the man himself was behind her with a
lamp in the hall. They were very little changed from their old
selves of fourteen years ago (in August), when I left them at
Craigenputtock. 'Well,' said Carlyle, 'here we are shoveled
together again.' The floodgates of his talk are quickly opened,
and the river is a plentiful stream. We had a wide talk that
night until nearly one o'clock, and at breakfast next morning
again. At noon or later we walked forth to Hyde Park and the
Palaces, about two miles from here, to the National Gallery, and
to the Strand, Carlyle melting all Westminster and London into
his talk and laughter, as he goes.
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