The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-07-23
EMERSON TO CARLYLE.
An Interesting Letter Written Thirty -rouy
Years Ago.
From The dthenduiR.

From the Athendun.
We publish this week another lcttcraddresec
by Emerson to Carlyle, which is interesting as giving
sketch Of the writer's life at the time was written and
Of his active Efforts to aii Carlyle:
CONCORD May 10, 1898
MY DEAR FRIEND: Yesterday | had your let
ter Of March, 1t quickens my purpose always
all but rpel to. write to you. If it had come
earlier / should have been confirmed in my
anes Of Y a. II il Mn rc fo'r on ISfe ns
printing, OF the two first volumes 10 make 900
pn.l OF the papers rs they stand in your list.
seventeenth or eighteenth article. l regret it,
because this book will not embrace those pa.
pers chiefly desire to provide people with. and
ruptcy and famine. before We shall think it
prudent to publish two volumes more. But
LorinE is good man and thinks that many
may desire to see tho sources of Nile l. for
my part. fancy that to meet the taste Of the
ward BEGINNING With the PAPER o on scott Which
has had the best reception ever known. Car
lylesm is Incoming so fashionable that the
rcprobation by applauding this review. have
agreed with the bookseller publishing the Mis-
copy lie sells 81 and go% re S hap9
the retail price to be 81 80. The cost Of the
work will probably appear in six, or seven
weeks. We print 900 copies. So whenever it
is sold you shall have 81 600.
The French Revolution :" continues to find
friends and purchasers; 1t has gone to New
Orleans 70 Nashville, to Wick burg. l have not
that nearly or quite 800 copies should be gone.
On July l shall make up accounts with the
booksellers. and hope to make you the. most
favorable returns. shall use the advice Of
Barnard Adams d Co. in regard to renittanccs
When you publish your nextbook think you
must send it out to me in sheets, and let us
print il here contemporuneously with the Eng.
fish edition. The ecldt Of so new n book would
ha thnt sho Iar, hur ia IN. T.,
tora steamer and come in fortnight To New
York. and in twenty-four hours more to Con-
cord. Your study armchair. fireplace. and bed.
long vacant. auGuring expect You. Then YOU
learning to the NV World Thmk Of it in in good
earnest, In aid of your friendes! purpose,
will set down some Of the fncts. occupy. or
improve, as we Yankees say two acres only 81
garden, my orchard of thirty young trees. my
empty barn. My house is now II very good ono
for comfort and abouIpding in room, Besides
income in ordinary years is six per cent.
have no other 1.-THE or glebe except the in
winter OF a We ,bs wSn WaS br Ts
at home. am rich man. stay ut home aud
20 abroad at my own instance. ! have food.
home. am rich no longer. never have dot.
lar to spend on fancy. As no wise man.
suppose; ever was rich in the sense of freedom
SO neither am /, who am not wise, But at home
an, rich, rich enough for ten brothers. My
vile lldlan II an incarnation OF Christianity
cal her .Asi0-and keeps my philosophy from
Antinomianism; my mother, whitcst mdcst.
most conservative of ladies' whose only "Nccp-
ton to her universal preference Tor old things
is her son: my boy. n piece Of love and san.
shine well worth my watching FROM morm;u:
to night: these and three domestic women
who cook and sew and run for US. make all my
household. Here sit aud road and write. with
very little system and. MS far rs regards cam
position with the most frasuentary result:
paragraphs incumprcnsibc each sentence an
infinitely rcpcllrnt particle.
In summer, with the aid Of Il ncighhor. !
manage my garden and Il week ago | set cut
on the west side Of my house forty young pine
trees to protect me or my son, from the wind
of January. The ornament OF the place is the
occasional presence of some ten or twelve per.
sons good and wise. who visit Us in the course
Of the year But my story is too long already.
God grant that You will come and bring that
blessed wife. whose ,protrn"tcd illness we
RSSar GTieHs y TO W,o learn and WhGm
nursing would in less than Il twrlyrmonth
restore To- blooming health Ny wife, sends
TO ton hrr }ns WGSt Some ana MI :" e
Your genius tcndeth to the New. 20 the West
Come and liyc with me year. and if you dc
not like New England well enough To stay one
its ten editions and been translated into ns
many languagesl will come and dwell With
gladly hear what you say Of Sterling. an
foolish enough to be delighted with being an
object OF kindness to Il man have never -c"n
the Bidckwood for March. which long 10 So"
but the other three papers | have read with
great satisfaction. They lie here ON my table,
But he must get we'll.
As 10 Miss Martincau. know not well what
TO say. Meaning 10 do me signal Kindness
land Kindness quite out of all measure Il
luStlcc), she does ma great unuuyano" 'o
take away from me my privacy and thrust mo
before my time III ever there be- Il tmrI int.
tho arena OF the gladin,ors to bo stared at.
was ashamed to read, and am ashamed -
remember, Yet rs you see her. | would
not, bo wanting in gratitude 10 Il glued
and generous lady who So Literally trans.
figures ones dement's, Soyuu shall tell l. =,
il, YOU please, that | read al her book with
pleasure hut that part, and ii ever sh#l travel
West or south ] think she las furnished ulg
with the eyes. Farewell dear wis man,
think your poverty honorable above the rpu-
mon brEhtness OF that thorn crown If H.
prMsH oi thousand years, Yet E.po 'hc gn'
gHi'al B"idame, all helping an lur ed, has
given You her last lessons. and finding y.u 49,.
stridnS proficient, viii di~ns~ yoa t'u. hnN-
bred editions and the alteration ul the n'"t-r.'
crs, r. W. INiI-pH,
a, young cngnr"r in Cambridge hy uano
Mexican. volunteers his services in r' rr"rlIlS
VI" proofs of the Miscranios and &c. lts }uur
trruta for the love of the r"udilg. %hHl. No
IN ! tt.,. tlttH