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Let me not forget to thank you for that _fourth_ page of your
Note; I should say it was almost the most interesting of all.
News from yourself at first hand; a momentary glimpse into the
actual Household at Concord, face to face, as in years of old!
True, I get vague news of you from time to time; but what are
these in comparison?--If you _will,_ at the eleventh hour, turn
over a new leaf, and write me Letters again,--but I doubt _you
won't._ And yet were it not worth while, think you? [Greek]--
will be here _anon._--My kindest regards to your wife. Adieu, my
ever-kind Old Friend.
Yours faithfully always,
T. Carlyle
CLXXXIV. Emerson to Carlyle
Concord, 17 June, 1870
My Dear Carlyle,--Two* unanswered letters filled and fragrant and
potent with goodness will not let me procrastinate another
minute, or I shall sink and deserve to sink into my dormouse
condition. You are of the Anakim, and know nothing of the
debility and postponement of the blonde constitution. Well,
if you shame us by your reservoir inexhaustible of force,
you indemnify and cheer some of us, or one of us, by charges
of electricity.
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