The rest of the Book is not without
considerable geniality and merits; but one wanted a clear
concise Narrative beyond all other merits; and if you ask here
(except in that half-volume) about any fact, you are answered (so
to speak) not in words, but by a symbolic tune on the bagpipe,
symbolic burst of wind-music from the brass band;--which is not
the plan at all!--What can have become of Mazzini's Letter, which
he certainly did write and despatched to you, is not easily
conceivable. Still less in the case of Browning: for Browning
and his Wife did also write; I myself in the end of last July,
having heard him talk kindly and well of poor Margaret and her
Husband, took the liberty on your behalf of asking him to put
something down on paper; and he informed me, then and repeatedly
since, he had already done it,--at the request of Mrs. Story, I
think. His address at present is, "No. 138 Avenue des Champs
Elysees, a Paris," if your American travelers still thought of
inquiring.--Adieu, dear Emerson, till next week.
Yours ever,
T.
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