She has a beautiful enthusiasm; and is
perhaps in the right stage of insight for doing that piece of
business well.--Of other persons or interests I will say nothing
till a calmer opportunity; which surely cannot be very long
in coming.
In four days I am to rejoin my wife; after which some bits of
visits are to be paid in this North Country; necessary most of
them, not likely to be profitable almost any. In perhaps a month
I expect to be back in Chelsea; whither direct a word if you are
still beneficent enough to think of such a Castaway!
Yours ever,
T. Carlyle
I got Thoreau's Book; and meant well to read it, but have not
yet succeeded, though it went with me through all Ireland: tell
him so, please. Too Jean-Paulish, I found it hitherto.
CXLII. Carlyle to Emerson
Chelsea, 19 July, 1850
My Dear Emerson, My Friend, my Friend,--You behold before you a
remorseful man! It is well-nigh a year now since I despatched
some hurried rag of paper to you out of Scotland, indicating
doubtless that I would speedily follow it with a longer letter;
and here, when gray Autumn is at hand again, I have still written
nothing to you, heard nothing from you! It is miserable to think
of:--and yet it is a fact, and there is no denying of it; and so
we must let it lie.
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