SD1264.1. Ralph Waldo Emerson to Thomas Carlyle

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 13.

Concord,

31 July, 1846

My dear friend,

The new edition of Cromwell in its perfect form & in excellent dress, and the copy of the Appendix came munificently safe by the last steamer. …

I send this letter by Margaret Fuller … I wish you to see Margaret, when you are in special good humour, & have an hour of boundless leisure. And I entreat Jane Carlyle to abet & exalt & secure this satisfaction to me. I need not, & yet perhaps I need say, that M. F. is the safest of all possible persons who ever took pen in hand—Prince Metternich’s closet not closer or half so honorable. In the next place; I should be glad if you can easily manage to show her the faces of Tennyson & of Browning. She has a sort of right to them both not only because she likes their poetry, but because she has made their merits widely known among our young people. …

Publication: The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle, ed. Joseph Slater (New York, 1964), pp. 406–408.

Manuscript: National Library of Scotland.

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