--I have had nothing to send you
tidings of. Yet I get the best accounts from home of wife and
babes and friends. I am seeing this England more thoroughly than
I had thought was possible to me. I find this lecturing a key
which opens all doors. I have received everywhere the kindest
hospitality from a great variety of persons. I see many
intelligent and well-informed persons, and some fine geniuses. I
have every day a better opinion of the English, who are a very
handsome and satisfactory race of men, and, in the point of
material performance, altogether incomparable. I have made some
vain attempts to end my lectures, but must go on a little longer.
With kindest regards to the Lady Jane,
Your friend,
R.W.E.
Margaret Fuller's address, if anything is to be written, is, Care
of Maquay, Pakenham & Co., Rome.
CXXXI. Carlyle to Emerson
Chelsea, 30 December, 1847
My Dear Emerson,--We are very glad to see your handwriting again,
and learn that you are well, and doing well. Our news of you
hitherto, from the dim Lecture-element, had been satisfactory
indeed, but vague.
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