Genius is
but a large infusion of Deity, and so brings a pre-
rogative all its own.
but a large infusion of Deity, and so brings a pre-
rogative all its own.
Thomas Carlyle
-
Well, it is now ended, and has no shining side
but this one, that materials are collected and a
possibility shown me how a repetition of the course
next year--which is appointed--will enable me
partly out of these materials, and partly by large
rejection of these, and by large addition to them,
to construct a fair report of what I have read a11d
thought on the subject. I doubt the experts in
Philosophy will not praise my discourses;--but
the topics give me room for my guesses, criticism,
admirations and experiences with the accepted
masters, and also the lessons I have learned from
the hidden great. I have the fancy that a realist
is a good corrector of formalism, no matter how
incapable of syllogism or continuous linked state-
ment. To great results of thought and morals the
steps are not many, and it is not the masters who
spin the ostentatious continuity.
I am glad to hear that the last sent book from
me arrived safely. You were too tender and gen-
erous in your first notice of it, I fear. But with
whatever deductions for your partiality, I know
well the unique value of Carlyle's praise.
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? 364 Emerson to Carlyle.
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Many things crowd to be said on this little paper.
Though I could see no harm in the making known
the bequest of books to Cambridge,--no harm, but
sincere pleasure, and honor of the donor from all
good men,--yet on receipt of your letter touching
that, I went back to President Eliot, and told him
your opinion on newspapers. He said it was neces-
sarily communicated to the seven persons compos-
ing the Corporation, but otherwise he had been
very cautious, and it would not go into print.
You are sending me a book, and Chapman's
Homer it is? Are you bound by your Arabian
bounty to a largess whenever you think of your
friend? And you decry the book too. 'T is long
since I read it, or in it, but the apotheosis of Homer,
in the dedication to Prince Henry, "Thousands of
years attending," &c. , is one of my lasting inspira-
tions. The book has not arrived yet, as the letter
always travels faster, but shall be watched and
received and announced.
But since you are all bounty and care for
me, where are the new volumes of the Library
Edition of Carlyle? I received duly, as I wrote
you in a former letter, nine Volumes,--Sartor;
Lij'e of Schiller ; five Vols. of Miscellanies; French
Revolution; these books oddly addressed to my
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? Emerson to Carlyle. 365
name, but at Cincinnati, Massachusetts. Whether
they went to Ohio, and came back to Boston, I
know not. Two volumes came later, duplicates of
two already received, and were returned at my re-
quest by Fields & Co. with an explanation. But
no following volume has come. I write all this
because you said in one letter that Mr. Chapman
assured you that every month a book was de-
spatched to my address.
But what do I read in our Boston Newspapers
twice in the last three days? That " Thomas Car-
lyle is coming to America," and the tidings cor-
dially greeted by the editors; though I had just
received your letter silent to any such point. 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.
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? 366 Carlyle lo Emerson.
GLXXXV.
CARLYLE TO EMERSON.
5 CHEYNE Row, Cnmsna,
28 September, 1870.
DEAR EMERSON,--YOI1l' 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
infelicitous 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. Certainly no Letter was for-
warded that had the hundredth part of the right
to be so ; certainly, of all the Letters that came to
me, or were left waiting here, this was, in compar-
ison, the one which might not with propriety have
been left to lie stranded forever, or to wander on
the winds forever 1 --
One of my first journeys was to Chapman, with
vehement rebuke of this inconceivable " Cincinnati-
Massachusetts" business. Stupiditas stupiditatum ,-
I never in my life, not even in that unpunctual
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? Carlyle to Emerson. 367
House, fell in with anything that equalled it. In-
stant amendment was at once undertaken for, nay
it seems had been already in part performed: "Ten
volumes, following the nine you already had, were
despatched in Field & Co. 's box above two months
ago," so Chapman solemnly said and asseverated
to me ; so that by this time you ought actually to
have in hand nineteen volumes ; and the twentieth
(first of Friedrich), which came out ten days ago,
is to go in Field & Co. 's Box this week, and ought,
not many days after the arrival of this Letter, to
be in Boston waiting for you there. The Chap-
man's Homer (two volumes) had gone with that
first Field Packet; and would be handed to you
along with the ten volumes which were overdue.
All this was solemnly declared to me as on Alfi-
davit; Chapman also took extract of the Massa-
chusetts passage in your Letter, in order to pour
it like ice-cold water on the head of his stupid old
Chief-Clerk, the instant the poor creature got back
from his rustication: alas, I am by no means cer-
tain that it will make a new man of him, nor, in
fact, that the whole of this amendatory programme
will get itself performed to equal satisfaction! But
you must write to me at once if it is not so; and
done it shall be in spite of human stupidity itself.
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? 368 Carlyle to Emerson.
Note, withal, these things: Chapman sends no
Books to America except through Field & Co. ; he
does not regularly send a Box at the middle of the
month; but he does "almost monthly send one
Box"; so that if your monthly Volume do not
start from London about the 15th, it is due by the
very next Chapman-Field box; and if it at any time
don't come, I beg of you very much to make instant
complaint through Field & Co. , or what would be
still more effectual, direct to myself. My malison
on all Blockheadisms and torpid stupidities and
infidelities; of which this world is full ! -- '
Your Letter had been anxiously enough waited
for, a month before my departure ;'but we will not
mention the delay in presence of what you were
engaged with then. Faustum sit; that truly was
and will be a Work worth doing your best upon;
and I, if alive, can promise you at least one reader
that will do his best upon your Work. I myself
often think of the Philosophies precisely in that
manner. To say truth, they do not otherwise rise
in esteem with me at all, but rather sink. The
last thing I read of that kind was a piece by Hegel,
In an excellent Translation by Stirling, right well
translated, I could see, for every bit of it was intel-
ligible to me ; but my feeling at the end of it was,
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? Carlyle to Fhnerson. 359
"Good Heavens, I have walked this road before
many a good time; but never with a Cannon-ball
at each ankle before! " Science also, Science
falsely so called, is ---- But I will not enter upon
that with you just now.
The Visit to America, alas, alas, is pure Moon-
shine. Never had I, in late years, the least shadow
of intention to undertake that adventure; and I
am quite at a loss to understand how the rumor
originated. One Boston Gentleman (a kind of
universal Undertaker, or Lion's Provider of Lec-
turers I think) informed me that "the Cable " had
told him; and I had to remark, "And who the
devil told the Cable? " Alas, no, I fear I shall
never dare to undertake that big Voyage; which
has so much of romance and of reality behind it to
me ; zu spat, zu spat. I do sometimes talk dream-
ily of a long Sea-Voyage, and the good the Sea
has often done me,--in times when good was still
possible. It may have been some vague folly of
that kind that originated this rumor; for rumors
are like dandelion-seeds; and the Cable I dare say
welcomes them all that have a guinea in their
pocket.
Thank you for blocking up that Harvard matter;
provided it don't go into the Newspapers, all is
voL. II. 24
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? 370 Emerson to Carlyle. _
right. Thank you a thousand times for that thrice-
kind potential welcome, and flinging wide open your
doors and your hearts to me at Concord. The gleam
of it is like sunshine in a subterranean place. Ah
me, Ah me ! May God be with you all, dear
Emerson.
Yours ever,
T. CARLYLE.
CLXXXVI.
EMERSON TO CARLYLE.
Corzconn, 15 October, 1870.
MY DEAR CARLYLE,--I am the ignoblest of all
men in my perpetual short-comings to you. There
is no example of constancy like yours, and it al-
ways stings my stupor into temporary recovery and
wonderful resolution to accept the noble challenge.
But " the strong hours conquer us," and I am the
victim of miscellany, -- miscellany of designs, vast
debility, and procrastination.
Already many days before your letter came,
Fields sent me a package from you, which he said
he had found a little late, because they were cov-
ered up in a box of printed sheets of other charac-
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? Emerson to Carlyle. 37;
ter, and this treasure was not at first discovered.
They are, --Life of Sterling; Latter Day Pam-
phlets; Past and Present ; Heroes; 5 Vols. Crom-
well's Letters and Speeches. Unhappily, Vol. II.
of Cromwell is wanting, and there is a duplicate
of Vol. V. instead of it. Now, two days ago
came your letter, and tells me that the good old
gods have also inspired you to send me Chap-
man's Homer! and that it came -- heroes with
heroes -- in the same enchanted box. I went
to Fields yesterday and demanded the book. He
ignored all,--even to the books he had already
sent me ; called Osgood to council, and they agreed
that it must be that all these came in a box of
sheets of Dickens from Chapman, which was sent
to the Stereotypers at Cambridge; and the box
shall be instantly explored. We will see what to-
morrow shall find. As to the duplicates, I will say
here, that I have received two: first, the above-
mentioned Vol. II. of Cromwell; and, second, long
before, a second copy of Sartor Resartus, appar-
ently instead of the Vol. I. of the French Revolu-
tion, which did not come. I proposed to Fields to
send back to Chapman these two duplicates. But
he said, "No, it will cost as much as the price of
the books. " I shall try to find in New York who
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? 372 Emerson to Carlyle.
represents Chapman and sells these books, and put
them to his credit there, in exchange for the vol-
umes I lack. Meantime, my serious thanks for all
these treasures go to you,--steadily good to my
youth and my age.
Your letter was most welcome, and most in that
I thought I read, in what you say of not making
the long-promised visit hither, a little willingness
to come. Think again, I pray you, of that Ocean
Voyage, which is probably the best medicine and
restorative which remains to us at your age and
mine. Nine or ten days will bring you (and com-
monly with unexpected comfort and easements on
the way) to Boston. Every reading person in
America holds you in exceptional regard, and
will rejoice in your arrival. They have forgotten
your scarlet sins before or during the war. I
have long ceased to apologize for or explain your
savage sayings about American or other republics
or publics, and am willing that anointed men
bearing with them authentic charters shall be
laws to themselves as Plato willed.
Genius is
but a large infusion of Deity, and so brings a pre-
rogative all its own. It has a right and duty to
affront and amaze men by carrying out its per-
ceptions defiantly, knowing well that time and
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? Emerson to Carlyle. 373
fate will verify and explain what time and fate
have through them said. We must not suggest
to Michel Angelo, or Machiavel, or Rabelais, or
Voltaire, or John Brown of Osawatomie (a great
man), or Carlyle, how they shall suppress their
paradoxes and check their huge gait to keep ac-
curate step with the procession on the street side-
walk. They are privileged persons, and may have
their own swing for me.
I did not mean to chatter so much, but I wish
you would come out hither and read our possibilities
now being daily disclosed, and our- actualities which
are not nothing. I shall like to show you my near
neighbors, topographically or practically. A near
neighbor and friend, E. Rockwood Hoar, whom you
saw in his youth, is now an inestimable citizen in
this State, and lately, in President Grant's Cabinet,
Attorney-General of the United States. He lives
in this town and carries it in his hand. Another
is John M. Forbes, a strictly private citizen, of
great executive ability, and noblest affections, a
motive power and regulator essential to our City,--
refusing all office, but impossible to spare; and
these are men whom to name the voice breaks and
the eye is wet. A multitude of young men are
growing up here of high promise, and I compare
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? 374 Emerson to Carlyle.
gladly the social poverty of my youth with the
power on which these draw. The Lowell race,
again, in our War yielded three or four martyrs
so able and tender and true, that James Russell
Lowell cannot allude to them in verse or prose
but the public is melted anew. Well, all these
know you well, have read and will read you,-
yes, and will prize and use your benefaction to
the College; and I believe it would add hope,
health, and strength to you to come and see
them.
In my much writing I believe I have left the
chief things unsaid. But come! I and my house
wait for you. Aifectionately,
R. W. EMERsoN.
CLXXXVP.
EMERSON T0 CARLYLE.
Coxconn, 10 April, 1871.
' MY DEAR FRIEND,--I fear there is no pardon
from you, none from myself, for this immense new
gap in om' correspondence. Yet no hour came
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? Emerson to Carlyle. 374a
from month to month to write a letter, since what-
ever deliverance I got from one web in the last
year served only to throw me into another web as
pitiless. Yet what gossamer these tasks of mine
must appear to your might! Believe that the
American climate is unmanning, or that one Amer-
ican whom you know is severely taxed by Lilliput
labors. The last hot summer enfeebledme till my
young people coaxed me to go with Edward to the
White Hills, and we climbed or were dragged up
Agiocochook, in August, and its sleet and snowy
air nerved me again for the time. But the book-
sellers, whom I had long ago urged to reprint
Plutarch's Morals, claimed some forgotten prom-
ise, and set me on reading the old patriarch
again, and writing a few pages about him, which
no doubt cost me as much time and pottering as
it would cost you to write a History. Then an
" Oration " was due to the New England Society in
New York, on the 250th anniversary of the Ply-
mouth Landing,--as I thought myself familiar
with the story, and holding also some opinions
thereupon. But in the Libraries I found alcoves
full of books and documents reckoned essential;
and, at New York, after reading for an hour to
the great assembly out of my massy manuscript,
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3746 Emerson to Carlyle.
I refused to print a line until I could revise and
complete my papers ;-- risking, of course, the non-
sense of their newspaper reporters. This pill swal-
lowed and forgotten, it was already time for my
Second " Course on Philosophy " at Cambridge, --
which I had accepted again that I might repair the
faults of the last year. But here were eighteen
lectures, each to be read sixteen miles away from
my house, to go and come,--and the same work
and journey twice in each week,--and I have just
got through the doleful ordeal.
I have abundance of good readings and some
honest writing on the leading topics,--but in haste
and confusion they are misplaced and spoiled. I
hope the ruin of no young man's soul will here or
hereafter be charged to me as having wasted his
time or confounded his reason.
Now I come to the raid of a London bookseller,
Hotten, (of whom I believe I never told you,) on
my forgotten papers in the old Dials, and other
pamphlets here. Conway wrote me that he could
not be resisted,--would certainly steal good and
bad,--but might be guided in the selection. I
replied that the act was odious to me, and I prom-
ised to denounce the man and his theft to any
friends I might have in England; but if, instead
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? Emerson to Carlyle. 374a
of printing then, he would wait a year, I would
make my own selection, with the addition of some
later critical papers, and permit the book. Mr.
Ireland in Manchester, and Conway in London,
took the affair kindly in hand, and Hotten acceded
to my change. And that is the next task that
threatens my imbecility. But now, ten days ago
or less, my friend John M. Forbes has come to
me with a proposition to carry me off to California,
the Yosemite, the Mammoth trees, and the Pacific,
and, after much resistance, I have surrendered for
six weeks, and we set out to-morrow. And hence
this sheet of confession,--that I may not drag
a lengthening chain. Meantime, you have been
monthly loading me with good for evil. I have just
cormted twenty-three volumes of Carlyle's Library
Edition, in order on my shelves, besides two, or
perhaps three, which Ellery Channing has bor-
rowed. Add, that the precious Chapman's Homer
came safely, though not till months after you had
told me of its departure, and shall be guarded
henceforward with joy.
Wednesday, 13, Chicago. -- Arrived here and can
bring this little sheet to the post-office here. My
daughter Edith Forbes, and her husband William
H. Forbes, and three other friends, accompany me,
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and we shall overtake Mr. Forbes senior to-morrow
at Burlington, Iowa.
The widow of one of the noblest of our young
martyrs in the War, Col. Lowell} cousin [nephew]
of James Russell Lowell, sends me word that she
wishes me to give her a note of introduction to you,
confiding to me that she has once written a letter
to you which procured her the happiest reply from
you, and I shall obey her, and you will see her and
own her rights.
Still continue to be magnanimous to your friend,
R. W. EMRRsoN.
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CLXXXVII.
CARLYLE T0 EMERSON.
5 C1-IEYNE Row, CHELSEA,
4 June, 1871,
DEAR EMERSON,--YO11r Letter gave me great
pleasure. A gleam of sunshine after a long tract
of lowering weather. It is not you that are to
1 Charles Russell Lowell, to be remembered always with honor
in company with his brother James Jackson Lowell and his cousin
William Lowell Putnam, -- a shining group among the youths who
have died for their country.
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? Carlyle to Emerson. 375
blame for this sad gap in our correspondence; it
is I, or rather it is my misfortunes, and miserable
inabilities, broken resolutions, etc. , etc. The truth
is, the winter here was very unfriendly to me;
broke ruinously into my sleep; and through that
into every other department of my businesses, spir-
itual and temporal; so that from about N ew-Year's
Day last I have been, in a manner, good for noth-
ing,--nor am yet, though I do again feel as if the
beautiful Summer weather might perhaps do some-
thing for me. This it was that choked every enter-
prise; and postponed your Letter, week after week,
through so many months. Let us not speak of it
farther!
Note, meanwhile, I have no disease about me;
nothing but the gradual decay of any poor di-
gestive faculty I latterly had,--or indeed ever
had since I was three and twenty years of age.
Let us be quiet with it; accept it as a mode of
exit, of which always there must be some mode.
I have got done with all my press-correctings,
editionings, and paltry bother of that kind: Vol.
30 will embark for you about the middle of this
month; there are then to follow ("1miform," as
the printers call it, though in smaller type) a lit-
tle volume called General Index, and three more
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? 376 Carlyle to Emerson.
volumes of Translations from the German; after
which we two will reckon and count; and if there
is any lacuna on the Concord shelf, at once make
it good. Enough, enough on that score.
The Hotten who has got hold of you here is a
dirty little pirate, who snatches at everybody grown
fat enough to yield him a bite (paltry, unhanged
creature); so that in fact he is a symbol to you of
your visible rise in the world here ; and, with Con-
way's vigilance to help, will do you good and not
evil. Glad am I, in any case, to see so much new
spiritual produce still ripening around you; and
you ought to be glad, too. Pray Heaven you may
long keep your right hand steady: you, too, I can
perceive, will never, any more than myself, learn to
" write by dictation " in a manner that will be sup-
portable to you. I rejoice, also, to hear of such a
magnificent adventure as that you are now upon.
Climbing the backbone of America; looking into
the Pacific Ocean too, and the gigantic wonders
going on there. I fear you won't see Brigham
Young, however? He also to me is one of the
products out there ;-- and indeed I may confess to
you that the doings in that region are not only of
a big character, but of a great;--and that in my
occasional explosions against "Anarchy," and my
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inextinguishable hatred of it, I privately whisper
to myself, " Could any Friedrich Wilhelm, now, or
Friedrich, or most perfect Governor you could
hope to realize, guide forward what is America's
essential task at present faster or more completely
than ' anarchic America' herself is now doing? "
Such " Anarchy" has a great deal to say for it-
self,-- (would to Heaven ours of England had as
much ! )-- and points towards grand anti-Anarchies
in the future; in fact, I can already discern in it
huge quantities of Anti-Anarchy in the "impal-
pable-powder" condition; and hope, with the aid
of centuries, immense things from it, in my private
mind!
Good Mrs. --- has never yet made her ap-
pearance; but shall be welcome whenever she
does.
Did you ever hear the name of an aged, or
elderly, fantastic fellow-citizen of yours, called
J. Lee Bliss, who designates himself O. F. and A.
K. , i. e. " Old Fogey " and " Amiable Kuss " ? _He
sent me, the other night, a wonderful miscellany
of symbolical shreds and patches; which consid-
erably amused me; and withal indicated good-will
on the man's part; who is not without humor, in-
sight, and serious intention or disposition. If you
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ever did hear of him, say a word on the sub]ect
next time you write.
And above all things write. The instant you
get home from California, or see this, let me hear
from you what your adventures have been and what
the next are to be.
Well, it is now ended, and has no shining side
but this one, that materials are collected and a
possibility shown me how a repetition of the course
next year--which is appointed--will enable me
partly out of these materials, and partly by large
rejection of these, and by large addition to them,
to construct a fair report of what I have read a11d
thought on the subject. I doubt the experts in
Philosophy will not praise my discourses;--but
the topics give me room for my guesses, criticism,
admirations and experiences with the accepted
masters, and also the lessons I have learned from
the hidden great. I have the fancy that a realist
is a good corrector of formalism, no matter how
incapable of syllogism or continuous linked state-
ment. To great results of thought and morals the
steps are not many, and it is not the masters who
spin the ostentatious continuity.
I am glad to hear that the last sent book from
me arrived safely. You were too tender and gen-
erous in your first notice of it, I fear. But with
whatever deductions for your partiality, I know
well the unique value of Carlyle's praise.
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? 364 Emerson to Carlyle.
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Many things crowd to be said on this little paper.
Though I could see no harm in the making known
the bequest of books to Cambridge,--no harm, but
sincere pleasure, and honor of the donor from all
good men,--yet on receipt of your letter touching
that, I went back to President Eliot, and told him
your opinion on newspapers. He said it was neces-
sarily communicated to the seven persons compos-
ing the Corporation, but otherwise he had been
very cautious, and it would not go into print.
You are sending me a book, and Chapman's
Homer it is? Are you bound by your Arabian
bounty to a largess whenever you think of your
friend? And you decry the book too. 'T is long
since I read it, or in it, but the apotheosis of Homer,
in the dedication to Prince Henry, "Thousands of
years attending," &c. , is one of my lasting inspira-
tions. The book has not arrived yet, as the letter
always travels faster, but shall be watched and
received and announced.
But since you are all bounty and care for
me, where are the new volumes of the Library
Edition of Carlyle? I received duly, as I wrote
you in a former letter, nine Volumes,--Sartor;
Lij'e of Schiller ; five Vols. of Miscellanies; French
Revolution; these books oddly addressed to my
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? Emerson to Carlyle. 365
name, but at Cincinnati, Massachusetts. Whether
they went to Ohio, and came back to Boston, I
know not. Two volumes came later, duplicates of
two already received, and were returned at my re-
quest by Fields & Co. with an explanation. But
no following volume has come. I write all this
because you said in one letter that Mr. Chapman
assured you that every month a book was de-
spatched to my address.
But what do I read in our Boston Newspapers
twice in the last three days? That " Thomas Car-
lyle is coming to America," and the tidings cor-
dially greeted by the editors; though I had just
received your letter silent to any such point. 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.
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? 366 Carlyle lo Emerson.
GLXXXV.
CARLYLE TO EMERSON.
5 CHEYNE Row, Cnmsna,
28 September, 1870.
DEAR EMERSON,--YOI1l' 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
infelicitous 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. Certainly no Letter was for-
warded that had the hundredth part of the right
to be so ; certainly, of all the Letters that came to
me, or were left waiting here, this was, in compar-
ison, the one which might not with propriety have
been left to lie stranded forever, or to wander on
the winds forever 1 --
One of my first journeys was to Chapman, with
vehement rebuke of this inconceivable " Cincinnati-
Massachusetts" business. Stupiditas stupiditatum ,-
I never in my life, not even in that unpunctual
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? Carlyle to Emerson. 367
House, fell in with anything that equalled it. In-
stant amendment was at once undertaken for, nay
it seems had been already in part performed: "Ten
volumes, following the nine you already had, were
despatched in Field & Co. 's box above two months
ago," so Chapman solemnly said and asseverated
to me ; so that by this time you ought actually to
have in hand nineteen volumes ; and the twentieth
(first of Friedrich), which came out ten days ago,
is to go in Field & Co. 's Box this week, and ought,
not many days after the arrival of this Letter, to
be in Boston waiting for you there. The Chap-
man's Homer (two volumes) had gone with that
first Field Packet; and would be handed to you
along with the ten volumes which were overdue.
All this was solemnly declared to me as on Alfi-
davit; Chapman also took extract of the Massa-
chusetts passage in your Letter, in order to pour
it like ice-cold water on the head of his stupid old
Chief-Clerk, the instant the poor creature got back
from his rustication: alas, I am by no means cer-
tain that it will make a new man of him, nor, in
fact, that the whole of this amendatory programme
will get itself performed to equal satisfaction! But
you must write to me at once if it is not so; and
done it shall be in spite of human stupidity itself.
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? 368 Carlyle to Emerson.
Note, withal, these things: Chapman sends no
Books to America except through Field & Co. ; he
does not regularly send a Box at the middle of the
month; but he does "almost monthly send one
Box"; so that if your monthly Volume do not
start from London about the 15th, it is due by the
very next Chapman-Field box; and if it at any time
don't come, I beg of you very much to make instant
complaint through Field & Co. , or what would be
still more effectual, direct to myself. My malison
on all Blockheadisms and torpid stupidities and
infidelities; of which this world is full ! -- '
Your Letter had been anxiously enough waited
for, a month before my departure ;'but we will not
mention the delay in presence of what you were
engaged with then. Faustum sit; that truly was
and will be a Work worth doing your best upon;
and I, if alive, can promise you at least one reader
that will do his best upon your Work. I myself
often think of the Philosophies precisely in that
manner. To say truth, they do not otherwise rise
in esteem with me at all, but rather sink. The
last thing I read of that kind was a piece by Hegel,
In an excellent Translation by Stirling, right well
translated, I could see, for every bit of it was intel-
ligible to me ; but my feeling at the end of it was,
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? Carlyle to Fhnerson. 359
"Good Heavens, I have walked this road before
many a good time; but never with a Cannon-ball
at each ankle before! " Science also, Science
falsely so called, is ---- But I will not enter upon
that with you just now.
The Visit to America, alas, alas, is pure Moon-
shine. Never had I, in late years, the least shadow
of intention to undertake that adventure; and I
am quite at a loss to understand how the rumor
originated. One Boston Gentleman (a kind of
universal Undertaker, or Lion's Provider of Lec-
turers I think) informed me that "the Cable " had
told him; and I had to remark, "And who the
devil told the Cable? " Alas, no, I fear I shall
never dare to undertake that big Voyage; which
has so much of romance and of reality behind it to
me ; zu spat, zu spat. I do sometimes talk dream-
ily of a long Sea-Voyage, and the good the Sea
has often done me,--in times when good was still
possible. It may have been some vague folly of
that kind that originated this rumor; for rumors
are like dandelion-seeds; and the Cable I dare say
welcomes them all that have a guinea in their
pocket.
Thank you for blocking up that Harvard matter;
provided it don't go into the Newspapers, all is
voL. II. 24
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? 370 Emerson to Carlyle. _
right. Thank you a thousand times for that thrice-
kind potential welcome, and flinging wide open your
doors and your hearts to me at Concord. The gleam
of it is like sunshine in a subterranean place. Ah
me, Ah me ! May God be with you all, dear
Emerson.
Yours ever,
T. CARLYLE.
CLXXXVI.
EMERSON TO CARLYLE.
Corzconn, 15 October, 1870.
MY DEAR CARLYLE,--I am the ignoblest of all
men in my perpetual short-comings to you. There
is no example of constancy like yours, and it al-
ways stings my stupor into temporary recovery and
wonderful resolution to accept the noble challenge.
But " the strong hours conquer us," and I am the
victim of miscellany, -- miscellany of designs, vast
debility, and procrastination.
Already many days before your letter came,
Fields sent me a package from you, which he said
he had found a little late, because they were cov-
ered up in a box of printed sheets of other charac-
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? Emerson to Carlyle. 37;
ter, and this treasure was not at first discovered.
They are, --Life of Sterling; Latter Day Pam-
phlets; Past and Present ; Heroes; 5 Vols. Crom-
well's Letters and Speeches. Unhappily, Vol. II.
of Cromwell is wanting, and there is a duplicate
of Vol. V. instead of it. Now, two days ago
came your letter, and tells me that the good old
gods have also inspired you to send me Chap-
man's Homer! and that it came -- heroes with
heroes -- in the same enchanted box. I went
to Fields yesterday and demanded the book. He
ignored all,--even to the books he had already
sent me ; called Osgood to council, and they agreed
that it must be that all these came in a box of
sheets of Dickens from Chapman, which was sent
to the Stereotypers at Cambridge; and the box
shall be instantly explored. We will see what to-
morrow shall find. As to the duplicates, I will say
here, that I have received two: first, the above-
mentioned Vol. II. of Cromwell; and, second, long
before, a second copy of Sartor Resartus, appar-
ently instead of the Vol. I. of the French Revolu-
tion, which did not come. I proposed to Fields to
send back to Chapman these two duplicates. But
he said, "No, it will cost as much as the price of
the books. " I shall try to find in New York who
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? 372 Emerson to Carlyle.
represents Chapman and sells these books, and put
them to his credit there, in exchange for the vol-
umes I lack. Meantime, my serious thanks for all
these treasures go to you,--steadily good to my
youth and my age.
Your letter was most welcome, and most in that
I thought I read, in what you say of not making
the long-promised visit hither, a little willingness
to come. Think again, I pray you, of that Ocean
Voyage, which is probably the best medicine and
restorative which remains to us at your age and
mine. Nine or ten days will bring you (and com-
monly with unexpected comfort and easements on
the way) to Boston. Every reading person in
America holds you in exceptional regard, and
will rejoice in your arrival. They have forgotten
your scarlet sins before or during the war. I
have long ceased to apologize for or explain your
savage sayings about American or other republics
or publics, and am willing that anointed men
bearing with them authentic charters shall be
laws to themselves as Plato willed.
Genius is
but a large infusion of Deity, and so brings a pre-
rogative all its own. It has a right and duty to
affront and amaze men by carrying out its per-
ceptions defiantly, knowing well that time and
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? Emerson to Carlyle. 373
fate will verify and explain what time and fate
have through them said. We must not suggest
to Michel Angelo, or Machiavel, or Rabelais, or
Voltaire, or John Brown of Osawatomie (a great
man), or Carlyle, how they shall suppress their
paradoxes and check their huge gait to keep ac-
curate step with the procession on the street side-
walk. They are privileged persons, and may have
their own swing for me.
I did not mean to chatter so much, but I wish
you would come out hither and read our possibilities
now being daily disclosed, and our- actualities which
are not nothing. I shall like to show you my near
neighbors, topographically or practically. A near
neighbor and friend, E. Rockwood Hoar, whom you
saw in his youth, is now an inestimable citizen in
this State, and lately, in President Grant's Cabinet,
Attorney-General of the United States. He lives
in this town and carries it in his hand. Another
is John M. Forbes, a strictly private citizen, of
great executive ability, and noblest affections, a
motive power and regulator essential to our City,--
refusing all office, but impossible to spare; and
these are men whom to name the voice breaks and
the eye is wet. A multitude of young men are
growing up here of high promise, and I compare
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? 374 Emerson to Carlyle.
gladly the social poverty of my youth with the
power on which these draw. The Lowell race,
again, in our War yielded three or four martyrs
so able and tender and true, that James Russell
Lowell cannot allude to them in verse or prose
but the public is melted anew. Well, all these
know you well, have read and will read you,-
yes, and will prize and use your benefaction to
the College; and I believe it would add hope,
health, and strength to you to come and see
them.
In my much writing I believe I have left the
chief things unsaid. But come! I and my house
wait for you. Aifectionately,
R. W. EMERsoN.
CLXXXVP.
EMERSON T0 CARLYLE.
Coxconn, 10 April, 1871.
' MY DEAR FRIEND,--I fear there is no pardon
from you, none from myself, for this immense new
gap in om' correspondence. Yet no hour came
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? Emerson to Carlyle. 374a
from month to month to write a letter, since what-
ever deliverance I got from one web in the last
year served only to throw me into another web as
pitiless. Yet what gossamer these tasks of mine
must appear to your might! Believe that the
American climate is unmanning, or that one Amer-
ican whom you know is severely taxed by Lilliput
labors. The last hot summer enfeebledme till my
young people coaxed me to go with Edward to the
White Hills, and we climbed or were dragged up
Agiocochook, in August, and its sleet and snowy
air nerved me again for the time. But the book-
sellers, whom I had long ago urged to reprint
Plutarch's Morals, claimed some forgotten prom-
ise, and set me on reading the old patriarch
again, and writing a few pages about him, which
no doubt cost me as much time and pottering as
it would cost you to write a History. Then an
" Oration " was due to the New England Society in
New York, on the 250th anniversary of the Ply-
mouth Landing,--as I thought myself familiar
with the story, and holding also some opinions
thereupon. But in the Libraries I found alcoves
full of books and documents reckoned essential;
and, at New York, after reading for an hour to
the great assembly out of my massy manuscript,
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3746 Emerson to Carlyle.
I refused to print a line until I could revise and
complete my papers ;-- risking, of course, the non-
sense of their newspaper reporters. This pill swal-
lowed and forgotten, it was already time for my
Second " Course on Philosophy " at Cambridge, --
which I had accepted again that I might repair the
faults of the last year. But here were eighteen
lectures, each to be read sixteen miles away from
my house, to go and come,--and the same work
and journey twice in each week,--and I have just
got through the doleful ordeal.
I have abundance of good readings and some
honest writing on the leading topics,--but in haste
and confusion they are misplaced and spoiled. I
hope the ruin of no young man's soul will here or
hereafter be charged to me as having wasted his
time or confounded his reason.
Now I come to the raid of a London bookseller,
Hotten, (of whom I believe I never told you,) on
my forgotten papers in the old Dials, and other
pamphlets here. Conway wrote me that he could
not be resisted,--would certainly steal good and
bad,--but might be guided in the selection. I
replied that the act was odious to me, and I prom-
ised to denounce the man and his theft to any
friends I might have in England; but if, instead
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? Emerson to Carlyle. 374a
of printing then, he would wait a year, I would
make my own selection, with the addition of some
later critical papers, and permit the book. Mr.
Ireland in Manchester, and Conway in London,
took the affair kindly in hand, and Hotten acceded
to my change. And that is the next task that
threatens my imbecility. But now, ten days ago
or less, my friend John M. Forbes has come to
me with a proposition to carry me off to California,
the Yosemite, the Mammoth trees, and the Pacific,
and, after much resistance, I have surrendered for
six weeks, and we set out to-morrow. And hence
this sheet of confession,--that I may not drag
a lengthening chain. Meantime, you have been
monthly loading me with good for evil. I have just
cormted twenty-three volumes of Carlyle's Library
Edition, in order on my shelves, besides two, or
perhaps three, which Ellery Channing has bor-
rowed. Add, that the precious Chapman's Homer
came safely, though not till months after you had
told me of its departure, and shall be guarded
henceforward with joy.
Wednesday, 13, Chicago. -- Arrived here and can
bring this little sheet to the post-office here. My
daughter Edith Forbes, and her husband William
H. Forbes, and three other friends, accompany me,
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and we shall overtake Mr. Forbes senior to-morrow
at Burlington, Iowa.
The widow of one of the noblest of our young
martyrs in the War, Col. Lowell} cousin [nephew]
of James Russell Lowell, sends me word that she
wishes me to give her a note of introduction to you,
confiding to me that she has once written a letter
to you which procured her the happiest reply from
you, and I shall obey her, and you will see her and
own her rights.
Still continue to be magnanimous to your friend,
R. W. EMRRsoN.
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CLXXXVII.
CARLYLE T0 EMERSON.
5 C1-IEYNE Row, CHELSEA,
4 June, 1871,
DEAR EMERSON,--YO11r Letter gave me great
pleasure. A gleam of sunshine after a long tract
of lowering weather. It is not you that are to
1 Charles Russell Lowell, to be remembered always with honor
in company with his brother James Jackson Lowell and his cousin
William Lowell Putnam, -- a shining group among the youths who
have died for their country.
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? Carlyle to Emerson. 375
blame for this sad gap in our correspondence; it
is I, or rather it is my misfortunes, and miserable
inabilities, broken resolutions, etc. , etc. The truth
is, the winter here was very unfriendly to me;
broke ruinously into my sleep; and through that
into every other department of my businesses, spir-
itual and temporal; so that from about N ew-Year's
Day last I have been, in a manner, good for noth-
ing,--nor am yet, though I do again feel as if the
beautiful Summer weather might perhaps do some-
thing for me. This it was that choked every enter-
prise; and postponed your Letter, week after week,
through so many months. Let us not speak of it
farther!
Note, meanwhile, I have no disease about me;
nothing but the gradual decay of any poor di-
gestive faculty I latterly had,--or indeed ever
had since I was three and twenty years of age.
Let us be quiet with it; accept it as a mode of
exit, of which always there must be some mode.
I have got done with all my press-correctings,
editionings, and paltry bother of that kind: Vol.
30 will embark for you about the middle of this
month; there are then to follow ("1miform," as
the printers call it, though in smaller type) a lit-
tle volume called General Index, and three more
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? 376 Carlyle to Emerson.
volumes of Translations from the German; after
which we two will reckon and count; and if there
is any lacuna on the Concord shelf, at once make
it good. Enough, enough on that score.
The Hotten who has got hold of you here is a
dirty little pirate, who snatches at everybody grown
fat enough to yield him a bite (paltry, unhanged
creature); so that in fact he is a symbol to you of
your visible rise in the world here ; and, with Con-
way's vigilance to help, will do you good and not
evil. Glad am I, in any case, to see so much new
spiritual produce still ripening around you; and
you ought to be glad, too. Pray Heaven you may
long keep your right hand steady: you, too, I can
perceive, will never, any more than myself, learn to
" write by dictation " in a manner that will be sup-
portable to you. I rejoice, also, to hear of such a
magnificent adventure as that you are now upon.
Climbing the backbone of America; looking into
the Pacific Ocean too, and the gigantic wonders
going on there. I fear you won't see Brigham
Young, however? He also to me is one of the
products out there ;-- and indeed I may confess to
you that the doings in that region are not only of
a big character, but of a great;--and that in my
occasional explosions against "Anarchy," and my
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inextinguishable hatred of it, I privately whisper
to myself, " Could any Friedrich Wilhelm, now, or
Friedrich, or most perfect Governor you could
hope to realize, guide forward what is America's
essential task at present faster or more completely
than ' anarchic America' herself is now doing? "
Such " Anarchy" has a great deal to say for it-
self,-- (would to Heaven ours of England had as
much ! )-- and points towards grand anti-Anarchies
in the future; in fact, I can already discern in it
huge quantities of Anti-Anarchy in the "impal-
pable-powder" condition; and hope, with the aid
of centuries, immense things from it, in my private
mind!
Good Mrs. --- has never yet made her ap-
pearance; but shall be welcome whenever she
does.
Did you ever hear the name of an aged, or
elderly, fantastic fellow-citizen of yours, called
J. Lee Bliss, who designates himself O. F. and A.
K. , i. e. " Old Fogey " and " Amiable Kuss " ? _He
sent me, the other night, a wonderful miscellany
of symbolical shreds and patches; which consid-
erably amused me; and withal indicated good-will
on the man's part; who is not without humor, in-
sight, and serious intention or disposition. If you
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ever did hear of him, say a word on the sub]ect
next time you write.
And above all things write. The instant you
get home from California, or see this, let me hear
from you what your adventures have been and what
the next are to be.
