New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03
CARLYLE TO LEIGH HUNT.
A Ncwty Printed Letter IN The AMcn0un.

Nc~ty Triaicd Letter in The Athca0un
me following letter is dated Craigenputtocl,
My DEAR SIR: Your letters are rare too rare. in
their outMard quality of sequence thro' the Post .
but happily still rarer in their inward quality; the
hope and kind trustful sympathy of new Eighteen
dwelling nnworn under har, which yon tell me is
we are coming 10 London lar have Destiny and
little Resolution brought it, The kind Mrs Austin
us Il House which hope and believe is not very far
from yours; it shall be farther than my widest
caicuiatlon II fal TO meet your challenge, and walk
and talk with YOU to all lengths. / know not we'll
how Chelsea lies from the Parish Church of Kcusnr
tom but II IL within sight OF the latter that we are
to be and some "trysting-tree" do you know So
much ScotchO Is already getting into leaf, as vet
unconscious OF IT'S future honor, between these Two
suburbs of Babylon. Some days TOO we will walk the
whole day long,in wide excursion; you lccturng me
on the phenomena of the region, which to you arc
native; my best amusement Is walking; | like rs
well as lladrian himself, to metc my world with
steps OF my own, and so take possession of it. But
II TO tins you add Speech. j. not speech defined to
be chcerfuller than Light and the eldest Daughter
OF Heaven mean articulate discourse OF reason,
that comes from the internal heavenly part Of lis
not the confused gable, which lin 80 many mill
IONS comes from no deeper than the palate OF the
mouth which it is the saddest of all things listen
10, thing that fills one alternately with sorrow and
Indignation, and at last almost with kind of nor
and The sacred Speech of men had become an mar
tculate Jargon OF hungry cawing rocks.
We laid down Your description of your house as
the model our Kind friend was TO aim at; how far
we have prospered will be seen In rent it appears
we are nearly on par; We also anticipate quiet
rest ours will be- no high wainscotted dwelling"
like iiomers and yours no some ncw-anglcd brick
booth. Which will trembe mt every step on which
no four-iooted thing can stand but only hlce-footcd
such Holland Street, Kcnsii gton in this year of
grace, can be expected To yield. | shall have some
little crib for my Books and Writngtabe and 80 do
the best that may be. InnImcrabe. inmcasurable
vague forebodIngs hang over me as | write; mean
while there is one good assurance the feeling that
1t was Il duty, almost necessity. Ny Dame, too il
full OF resolution for the enterprise, and whatsoever
may follow it so. Forward in Gods name!
have seen nothing of you for long time cycept
what of the "Decaces OF pigdrivinp" my Examiner
once gave me. IA humorous article by Hunt in The
ComPaeioa, No: ~ On the Graccs and Anxicties
OF Pgduying.'l A most tickling thing; not a word
of which can remember, only the whole fact of it,
pictured i'll such suhquizzical sweet-acid gcniality
of mockeTy, stands here, and, among smaller and
greater things, VIII stand. The starting of yonr
Journal Leigh Hunts London JournaU was "a glad
event for mc...-..I am writing nothing; reading
above all things old Homer and rroegomcna
enough;thc old song itself with moot singular de-
| light Fancy me as reading TIL you see me then
must another scene open. Your Newspapers will in
tcrest me rs for the unhappy Sarior can dctcst
him more than my present self there are some ten
| pages JaSed and harmonious; the rest is only
Wetdcd ore even aggOmerated, and may be thrown
! to the swine.
All salutatioDs from us both ralctc ct nos amate
Il. CARLYLE.