I have heard from Mrs.
--- twice lately, who exults in your kindness to her.
Always affectionately, Yours,
R.W. Emerson
CXC. Emerson to Carlyle
Baltimore, Md., 5 January, 1872
My Dear Carlyle,--I received from you through Mr. Chapman, just
before Christmas, the last rich instalment of your Library
Edition; viz. Vols. IV.-X. _Life of Friedrich;_ Vols. L-III.
_Translations from German;_ one volume General Index; eleven
volumes in all,--and now my stately collection is perfect.
Perfect too is your Victory. But I clatter my chains with joy,
as I did forty years ago, at your earliest gifts. Happy man you
should be, to whom the Heaven has allowed such masterly
completion. You shall wear your crown at the Pan-Saxon Games
with no equal or approaching competitor in sight,--well earned by
genius and exhaustive labor, and with nations for your pupils and
praisers. I count it my eminent happiness to have been so nearly
your contemporary, and your friend,--permitted to detect by its
rare light the new star almost before the Easterners had seen it,
and to have found no disappointment, but joyful confirmation
rather, in coming close to its orb.
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