New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-06
EMERSON TO CARLYLE.
" A SPADE AND AN ACRE OF GOOD GROUND"
From The Agten0un.

NEW-YORK, March IS, 1910.
My DEAR FRIEND: have just seen the steamer
British Queen enter the harbor from the sea, ana
here lies the Great Western to sail tomorrow.
Will resist hin Droad upon my long procrasti-
nations You sLau have at least tardy acknOWi-
edgment that / received in January your letter OF
December which | should have answered at once,
had it not found me absorbed IN wrltIng tO0Isu
lee ures which were then IN high tide. mad writ
ten you little earlier tdlngs OF the receipt OF your
"Fr Revolution Your letter was very welcome.
as all Your letters are have since seen tIdIngs Oh
the " Essay Char tlsm III an English periodical,
but have not yet got my prOOl-eheets- Ihsy are
probably still rolling some here outside OF TINS
port Tor ali packet ships have had the longest
passa ges only one has come IN Tor many a Week
We Will be as paUlent as we can.
AIN here OH a visit to my brother, who is a law
yer in this cty, and lives at Staten Island, at dis
lance of hat-an-hOurs sail. The city has SUCH lui-
mense natural advantages and sucn capabilities of
bOunuIess growth, anu such varied anu eVer-inCreas
ing accommodations aud appliances Tor eye ana ear
tor memory and VIII, tor lOcomO10n ana laVauOn-
aud all manner of delectatlon. that / that Tue
poor fellows that 1--we here DO yet some compelsi
ton for he sale OF their souls And how they mul-
uply They estimate the population tO-uab AT
$780, 600 and forty years II Is said, there were
but 10000, But always seem To suHer frOm 1855
of faith on entering cities. They are great con-
spiracles the parties are all masduers, VINO nave
ken mutual oaths OF silence nOt to Uetray eacn
others secret, and each 10 keep the others Iuad-
ness in cOunenance. You can scarce drive any craft
here that does not sUDOrna1lOn Oh tue
treason. believe In the spade aud an acre OF good
ground. " hose cuts straight pain 10 MS own
bead by the hep Of God, III the sun anu ram ana
splOuting or the gram, seems 10 uLo dH universal
workman. lie solves the problem oil life not Tor one
but for all men OF sound Dody. Wish may one
day send you word. or, better sho" you the tdct
that live by my hands without loss 0i memory or
of nope. Aud ct | am OF sucn a puny constitution,
TAI as concerns bodily LABOR That perhaps never
shall. We will
Did tell you that we hope shortly to send you
some American verses and prose OF good Intentf
My viyaclOus friend Margaret Fuller IS TO odlt
journal whose first number she promises Tor July
taN a
viii II written at all. saw some poeucaI irag-
ments winch charmed me-it only the writer con-
SCENTS TO give hem 20 the public
| believe | have yet little 90 tell you of myself /
ended the middle of February my Ten lee ,ures on
the Present Age. They are atttnUed by 400 10 900
peOpie, and the young people are 80 attentive aud
out OF the hail ask many questions, tnat
all the airs II age ana saplence. L All very
happy IN the sympathy and society Oh from SIX 10 a
dozen persons VINO teach NE 10 nope and expect
every lulug from my cOuntTymen. We shall lave
many kchnOnus IN me HELD presently. turn iGy
face hOneward JO-mOu0w and this summer mean
to resume my enuta 10 make sOlIe pftsculdDle
book Ot essays OuL Oh my noun am OF manuscript.
were II only Tor the sake OF clearance. lett lay
vie, anu 10y, ana gr-,ne soltest grlceL1lest
little maiden awe, creeping Ike turtle Win mead
erect ali about the hOuss-weu at home week ago.
he boy has TWO deep wells Tor eyes, into " nlcn
gladly peer when am tired Ellen, they say, las
no such depth OI ORD, but believe loVe ner DetIer
than ever 1 did the 10Y. l brought my mother Win
lie mere 10 spend the summer with William T.
and his vile and rudy by Oh tour years.
proportlon to their know edge and years. My let
Ter will find you, SUPPOSE ned .atlDg new Lectures
Tor your London dlsci pies May .Ove dnH uuLn IL
splre them. easily Jlat my predictions are
coming TO pass, and that having waited until your
anne was the hOod-tide We shail u no" see You
al Ali ON " estern shores Our SANITY Or. Tucker
man [ am told had lot, eT WITHIN year from Lord
Byrun's daughter, informing Cne good m&u Oh tAe
aDpearance OF a certain wonderful genius IN London
uaiued thomas Carlyle, and al LIS astonishing
Workings on her own and her friends bTaIns-aud
him Uhe very monster whom the doctor lad Deen
bOuorlng with bus best dread and CONSERVATION
these i've years But do come Ia one OF MI CunaEds
snIp, IA soon as the booksellers have made you
IL they iail 10 do 50 come and Iead lectures wmcn
the Yankees will pay Tor. Give my love aud hope
and perpetual remembrance TO your vile, my
wlt)s also Who bears her III her kIndest heart aud
who resolves every now and then 10 write TO her,
tuat she may thank her tor tue beautiful GUIDO.
You Told me 10 send you no more accounts. But
| certainly snail, our financial relations are
grown more complex and wish al least TO relieve
myself OIL this unwOnted buruen OF booksellers &C
counts and long delays by snaTing them. have
had one o. tneIr estimates by year, waiting W
send. Farew ell. X. ". L.