Make that story
true, though it had never a verisimilitude since thirty odd years
ago, and you shall make many souls happy and perhaps show you so
many needs and opportunities for beneficent power that you cannot
be allowed to grow old or withdraw. Was I not once promised a
visit? This house entreats you earnestly and lovingly to come
and dwell in it. My wife and Ellen and Edward E. are thoroughly
acquainted with your greatness and your loveliness. And it is
but ten days of healthy sea to pass.
So wishes heartily and affectionately,
R.W. Emerson
CLXXXV. Carlyle to Emerson
5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, 28 September, 1870
Dear Emerson,--Your Letter, dated 15 June, never got to me till
about ten days ago; when my little Niece and I returned out of
Scotland, and a long, rather empty Visit there! It had missed me
here only by two or three days; and my highly _in_felicitous
Selectress of Letters to be forwarded had left _it_ carefully
aside as undeserving that honor,--good faithful old Woman, one
hopes she is greatly stronger on some sides than in this
literary-selective one.
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