Emerson to Carlyle
Mrs. Massey's, Manchester, 2 Fenny Place, Fenny St.
November 5, 1847
Ah! my dear friend, all these days have gone, and you have had no
word from me, when the shuttles fly so swiftly in your English
loom, and in so few hours we may have tidings of the best that
live. At last, and only this day for the first day, I am
stablished in my own lodgings on English ground, and have a fair
parlor and chamber, into both of which the sun and moon shine,
into which friendly people have already entered.
Hitherto I have been the victim of trifles,--which is the fate
and the chief objection to traveling. Days are absorbed in
precious nothings. But now that I am in some sort a citizen, of
Manchester, and also of Liverpool (for there also I am to enter
on lodgings tomorrow, at 56 Stafford Street, Islington), perhaps
the social heart of this English world will include me also in
its strong and healthful circulations. I get the best letters
from home by the last steamers, and was much occupied in
Liverpool yesterday in seeing Dr.
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