_Abyss._--
If you ever write to C. Norton in Italy, send him my kind
remembrances.
--T. C. (with about the velocity of Engraving--on lead!)*
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* The letter was dictated, but the postscript, from the first
signature, was written in a tremulous hand by Carlyle himself.
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CLXXXVIII. Emerson to Carlyle
Concord, 30 June, 1871
My Dear Carlyle,--'T is more than time that you should hear from
me whose debts to you always accumulate. But my long journey to
California ended in many distractions on my return home. I found
Varioloid in my house... and I was not permitted to enter it for
many days, and could only talk with wife, son, and daughter from
the yard.... I had crowded and closed my Cambridge lectures in
haste, and went to the land of Flowers invited by John M. Forbes,
one of my most valued friends, father of my daughter Edith's
husband. With him and his family and one or two chosen guests,
the trip was made under the best conditions of safety, comfort,
and company, I measuring for the first time one entire line of
the Country.
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