SD1566. Ralph Waldo Emerson to Thomas Carlyle

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 363 (in part).

Concord Massachusetts

14 April 1852

My dear Carlyle,

I have not grown so callous by my sulky habit, but that I know where my friends are, & who can help me, in time of need. …

You were so kind as to interest yourself, many months ago, to set Mazzini & Browning on writing their reminiscences for us. But we never heard from either of them. Lately I have learned by way of Sam. Longfellow, in Paris, brother of our poet Longfellow, that Browning assured him, that he did write & send a memoir to this Country,—to whom, I know not. It never arrived at the hands of the Fullers, nor of Story, Channing, or me;—though the book was delayed in the hope of such help. I hate that his paper should be lost. …

Publication: The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle, ed. Joseph Slater (New York, 1964), pp. 475–476.

Manuscript: National Library of Scotland.

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