You shall hear of me again if I survive,--but really that is
getting beyond a joke with me, and I ought to hold my peace (even
to you), and swim what I can. Your little touch of Human Speech
on _Burns'_* was charming; had got into the papers here (and
been clipt out by me) before your copy came, and has gone far and
wide since. Newberg was to give it me in German, from the
_Allgemeine Zeitung,_ but lost the leaf. Adieu, my Friend; very
dear to me, tho' dumb.
--T. Carlyle (in such haste as seldom was).**
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* Emerson's fine speech was made at the celebration of the Burns
Centenary, Boston, January 25, 1859. See his _Miscellanies_
(Works, vol. xi.), p. 363.
** The preceding letter was discovered in 1893, in a little
package of letters put aside by Mr. Emerson and marked "Autographs."
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CLXIV. Emerson to Carlyle*
Concord, 1 May, 1859
Dear Carlyle,--Some three weeks ago came to me a note from Mr.
Haven of Worcester, announcing the arrival there of "King
Friedrich," and, after a fortnight, the good book came to my
door.
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