I will write to you again before long;
we cannot let you lie fallow in that manner altogether. Have you
got proper _spectacles_ for your eyes? I have adopted that
beautiful symbol of old age, and feel myself very venerable:
take care of your eyes!
Yours ever,
T. Carlyle
CXLVII. Emerson to Carlyle
Concord, 14 April, 1852
My Dear Carlyle,--I have not grown so callous by my sulky habit,
but that I know where my friends are, and who can help me, in
time of need. And I have to crave your good offices today, and
in a matter relating once more to Margaret Fuller.... You were
so kind as to interest yourself, many months ago, to set Mazzini
and Browning on writing their Reminiscences for us. But we never
heard from either of them. Lately I have learned, by way of Sam
Longfellow, in Paris, brother of our poet Longfellow, that
Browning assured him that he did write and send a memoir to this
country,--to whom, I know not. It never arrived at the hands of
the Fullers, nor of Story, Channing, or me;--though the book was
delayed in the hope of such help.
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