SD1574. Thomas Carlyle to Ralph Waldo Emerson

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 365 (in part).

Chelsea

7 May, 1852—

Dear Emerson,

I was delighted at the sight of your hand again. …

What can have become of Mazzini’s Letter which he certainly did write and despatch to you is not easily conceivable. Still less in the case of Browning: for Browning & his Wife did also write; I myself in the end of last july having heard him talk kindly and well of poor Margt and her Husband, took the liberty on your behalf of asking him to put something down on paper; and he informed me, then and repeatedly since, he had already done it,—at the request of Mrs. Story, I think. His Address at present is “No 138, Avenue des Champs Elysées, à Paris,” if yr American travellers still thot of inquiring. …

Publication: Carlyle, 27, 107–109.

Manuscript: R. W. Emerson Memorial Association.

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