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* "Eastern Life, Past and Present."
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CXXXIII. Carlyle to Emerson
Chelsea, 28 February, 1848
Dear Emerson,--We are delighted to hear of you again at first
hand: our last traditions represented you at Edinburgh, and left
the prospect of your return hither very vague. I have only time
for one word tonight: to say that your room is standing vacant
ever since you quitted it,--ready to be lighted up with all
manner of physical and moral _fires_ that the place will yield;
and is in fact _your_ room, and expects to be accounted such.--I
know not specially what your operations in this quarter are to
be; but whatever they are, or the arrangements necessary for
them, surely it is here that you must alight again in the big
Babel, and deliberately adjust what farther is to be done.
Write to us what day you are to arrive; and the rest is all
already managed.
Jane has never yet got out since the cold took her; but she has
at no time been so ill as is frequent with her in these winter
disorders; she is now steadily improving, and we expect will
come out with the sun and the green leaves,--as she usually does.
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