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CXXXIX. Emerson to Carlyle
Boston, 28 January, 1849
My Dear Carlyle,--Here in Boston for the day, though in no fit
place for writing, you shall have, since the steamer goes
tomorrow, a hasty answer to at least one of your questions....
You tell me heavy news of your friends, and of those who were
friendly to me for your sake. And I have found farther
particulars concerning them in the newspapers. Buller I have
known by name ever since he was in America with Lord Durham, and
I well remember his face and figure at Mr. Baring's. Even
England cannot spare an accomplished man.
Since I had your letter, and, I believe, by the same steamer,
your brother's _Dante,_* complete within and without, has come to
me, most welcome. I heartily thank him. 'T is a most
workmanlike book, bearing every mark of honest value. I thank
him for myself, and I thank him, in advance, for our people, who
are sure to learn their debt to him, in the coming months and
years. I sent the book, after short examination, the same day,
to New York, to the Harpers, lest their edition should come out
without Prolegomena.
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