Good be with you all always.
Your affectionate,
T. Carlyle
CXLIV. Carlyle to Emerson
Chelsea, 8 July, 1851
Dear Emerson,--Don't you still remember very well that there is
such a man? I know you do, and will do. But it is a ruinously
long while since we have heard a word from each other;--a state
of matters that ought immediately to _cease._ It was your turn,
I think, to write? It was somebody's turn! Nay I heard lately
you complained of bad eyes; and were grown abstinent of writing.
Pray contradict me this. I cannot do without some regard from
you while we are both here. Spite of your many sins, you are
among the most human of all the beings I now know in the world;--
who are a very select set, and are growing ever more so, I can
inform you!
In late months, feeling greatly broken and without heart for
anything weighty, I have been upon a _Life of John Sterling;_
which will not be good for much, but will as usual gratify me by
taking itself off my hands: it was one of the things I felt a
kind of obligation to do, and so am thankful to have done.
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