If you are otherwise engaged, you must send me
word. Otherwise, we shall come.
It was sad to hear no good news last evening from Jane Carlyle.
I heartily hope the night brought sleep, and the morning better
health to her.
Yours always,
R.W. Emerson
CXXXVI. Carlyle to Emerson
Chelsea, 20 June, 1848
Dear Emerson,--We shall be very glad to become acquainted with
Mrs. Crowe, of whom already by report we know many favorable
things. Brown (of Portobello, Edinburgh) had given us intimation
of her kind purposes towards Chelsea; and now on Thursday you
(please the Pigs) shall see the adventure achieved. Two o'clock,
not one, is the hour when labor ceases here,--if, alas, there be
any "labor" so much as got begun; which latter is often enough
the sad case. But at either hour we shall be ready for you.
I hope you penetrated the Armida Palace, and did your devoir to
the sublime Duchess and her Luncheon yesterday! I cannot without
a certain internal amusement (foreign enough to my present humor)
represent to myself such a conjunction of opposite stars! But you
carry a new image off with you, and are a gainer, you.
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