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Title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson,
1834-1872, Vol. I
Author: Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CARLYLE AND EMERSON, VOL. I ***
THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS CARLYLE AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON
1834-1872
VOLUME I.
"To my friend I write a letter, and from him I receive a letter.
It is a spiritual gift, worthy of him to give, and of me to
receive."--Emerson
"What the writer did actually mean, the thing he then thought of,
the thing he then was."--Carlyle
EDITORIAL NOTE
The trust of editing the following Correspondence, committed to
me several years since by the writers, has been of easy
fulfilment. The whole Correspondence, so far as it is known to
exist, is here printed, with the exception of a few notes of
introduction, and one or two essentially duplicate letters. I
cannot but hope that some of the letters now missing may
hereafter come to light.
In printing, a dash has been substituted here and there for a
proper name, and some passages, mostly relating to details of
business transactions, have been omitted. These omissions are
distinctly designated. The punctuation and orthography of the
original letters have been in the main exactly followed. I have
thought best to print much concerning dealings with publishers,
as illustrative of the material conditions of literature during
the middle of the century, as well as of the relations of the
two friends. The notes in the two volumes are mine.
My best thanks and those of the readers of this Correspondence
are due to Mr. Moncure D. Conway, for his energetic and
successful effort to recover some of Emerson's early letters
which had fallen into strange hands.
--Charles Eliot Norton
Cambridge, Massachusetts
January 29, 1883
---------
NOTE TO REVISED EDITION
The hope that some of the letters missing from it when this
correspondence was first published might come to light, has been
fulfilled by the recovery of thirteen letters of Carlyle, and of
four of Emerson. Besides these, the rough drafts of one or two
of Emerson's letters, of which the copies sent have gone astray,
have been found. Comparatively few gaps in the Correspondence
remain to be filled.
The letters and drafts of letters now first printed are those
numbered as follows:--
Vol. I.
XXXVI. Carlyle
XLI. Emerson
XLII. Carlyle
XLVI. "
XLVII. "
LXVIII. "
Vol. II.
C. Emerson
CIV. Carlyle
CV. "
CVI. "
CVII. "
CVIII. "
CIX. "
CXII. "
CXVI. "
CXLIX. Emerson
CLII. "
CLXV. "
CLXXXVI. "
Emerson's letter of 1 May, 1859 (CLXIV.), of which only fragments
were printed in the former edition, is now printed complete, and
the extract from his Diary accompanying it appears in the form in
which it seems to have been sent to Carlyle.
--C.E.N.
December 31, 1884
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
Introduction. Emerson's early recognition of Carlyle's genius.
--His visit at Craigenputtock, in 1833.--Extracts concerning it
from letter of Carlyle, from letter of Emerson, and from English
Traits.
I. Emerson. Boston, 14 May, 1834. First acquaintance with
Carlyle's writings.--Visit to Craigenputtock.--_Sartor Resartus,_
its contents, its diction.--Gift of Webster's _Speeches_ and
Sampson Reed's _Growth of the Mind._
II. Carlyle. Chelsea, 12 August, 1834. Significance of
Emerson's gift and visit.--Sampson Reed.--Webster.--
Teufelsdrockh, its sorry reception.--Removal to London.--Article
on the Diamond Necklace.--Preparation for book on the French
Revolution.--Death of Coleridge.
III. Emerson. Concord, 20 November, 1834. Death of his brother
Edward.--Consolation in Carlyle's friendship.--Pleasure in
receiving stitched copy of Teufelsdrockh.--Goethe.--
Swedenborgianism.--Of himself.--Hope of Carlyle's coming to
America.--Gift of various publications.
IV. Carlyle. Chelsea, 3 February, 1835. Acknowledgments and
inquiries.--Sympathy for death of Edward Emerson.--Unitarianism.
--Emerson's position and pursuits.--Goethe.-Volume of French
Revolution finished.--Condition of literature.--Lecturing in
America.--Mrs. Austin.
V. Emerson. Concord, 12 March, 1835. Appreciation of Sartor.
--Dr. Channing.--Prospect of Carlyle's visit to America.--His
own approaching marriage.--Plan of a journal of Philosophy in
Boston.--Encouragement of Carlyle.
VI. Emerson. Concord, 30 April, 1835. Apathy of English public
toward Carlyle.--Hope of his visit to America.--Lectures and
lecturers in Boston.--Estimate of receipts and expenses.--Esteem
of Carlyle in America.
VII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 13 May, 1835. Emerson's marriage.
--Astonishing reception of Teufelsdrockh in New England.
--Boston Transcendentalism.--Destruction of manuscript of
first volume of _French Revolution._--Result of a year's
life in London.--Wordsworth.--Southey.
VIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 27 June, 1835. Visit to America
questionable.--John Carlyle.--Tired out with rewriting _French
Revolution._--A London rout.--O'Connell.--Longfellow.--Emerson
and Unitarianism.
IX. Emerson. Concord, 7 October, 1835. Mrs. Child.--Public
addresses.--Marriage.--Destruction of manuscript of _French
Revolution._--Notice of _Sartor_ in _North American Review._
--Politics.--Charles Emerson.
X. Emerson. Concord, 8 April, 1836. Concern at Carlyle's
silence.--American reprint of _Sartor._--Carlyle's projected
visit.--Lecturing in New England.
XI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 29 April, 1836. Weariness over _French
Revolution._--Visit to Scotland.--Charm of London.--Letter from
James Freeman Clarke.--Article on _Sartor_ in _North American
Review._--Quatrain from Voss.
XII. Emerson. Concord, 17 September,1836. Death of Charles
Emerson.--Solicitude concerning Carlyle.--Urgency to him to come
to Concord.--Sends _Nature_ to him.--Reflections.
XIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 5 November, 1836. Charles Emerson's
death.--Concord.--His own condition.--_French Revolution_ almost
ended.--Character of the book.--Weariness.--London and its
people.--Plans for rest.--John Sterling.--Articles on Mirabeau
and the _Diamond Necklace._--Mill's _London_ Review.--Thanks for
American Teufelsdrockh.--Mrs. Carlyle.--Might and Right, Canst
and Shalt.--Books about Goethe.
XIV. Carlyle. Chelsea, 13 February, 1837. Teufelsdrockh in
America and England.--_Nature._--Miss Martineau on Emerson.
--Mammon.--Completion of _French Revolution._--Scheme of
Lecturing in London.--America fading into the background.
XV. Emerson. Concord, 31 March, 1837. Receipt of the Mirabeau
and Diamond Necklace.--Their substance and style.--Proof-sheet of
_French Revolution._--Society in America.--Renewed invitation.
--Mrs. Carlyle.--His son Waldo.--Bronson Alcott.--Second edition
of _Sartor._
XVI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 1 June, 1837. Lectures on German
Literature.--Copy of _French Revolution_ sent.--Review of himself
in _Christian Examiner._--George Ripley.--Miss Martineau and her
book on America.--Plans.
XVII. Emerson. Concord, 13 September, 1837. _The French
Revolution._--Sale of Carlyle's books.--Lectures.
XVIII. Emerson. Concord, 2 November, 1837. Introduction given
to Charles Sumner.--Reprint of _French Revolution._--Lectures.
XIX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 8 December, 1837. Visit to Scotland.
--Mrs. Carlyle's ill-health.--His own need of rest.--John
Sterling; his regard for Emerson.--Emerson's Oration on the
American Scholar.--Proposed collection of his own Miscellanies.
XX. Emerson. Concord, 9 February, 1838. Lectures on Human
Culture.--Carlyle's praise of his Oration.--John Sterling.
--Reprint of _French Revolution._--Profits from it.--American
selection and edition of Carlyle's _Miscellanies._
XXI. Emerson. Boston, 12 March, 1838. Sale of _French
Revolution._--Arrangements concerning American edition of
_Miscellanies._
XXII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 16 March, 1838. Prospect of cash from
Yankee-land.--Poverty.--American and English reprints of
_Miscellanies._--Sterling's _Crystals from a Cavern._--Miss
Martineau on Emerson.--Lectures.--Plans.
XXIII. Emerson. Concord, 10 May, 1838. American edition of
_Miscellanies._--Invitation to Concord.--His means and mode of
life.--Sterling.--Miss Martineau.--Carlyle's poverty.
XXIV. Carlyle. Chelsea, 15 June, 1838. American _French
Revolution._--London edition of Teufelsdrockh.--Miscellanies.
--Lectures, their money result.--Plans.--Emerson's Oration.
--Mrs. Child's _Philothea._
XXV. Emerson. Boston, 30 July, 1838. Encloses bill for L50.
--_Miscellanies_ published.
XXVI. Emerson. Concord, 6 August, 1838. Publication of
_Miscellanies._--Two more volumes proposed.--Orations at
Theological School, Cambridge, and at Dartmouth College.--Carlyle
desired in America.
XXVII. Carlyle. Scotsbrig, Ecclefechan, 25 September, 1838.
Visit to his Mother.--Remittance from Emerson of L50.--
_Miscellanies_ again.--Another Course of Lectures.--Sterling.--
Miss Martineau.
XXVIII. Emerson. Concord, 17 October, 1838. Business.--Outcry
against address to Divinity College.--Injury to Carlyle's repute
in America from association with him.--Article in _Quarterly_ on
German Religious Writers.--Sterling.
XXIX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 7 November, 1838. Emerson's letters.--
Dyspepsia.--Use of money from America.--Arrangements concerning
publication of _Miscellanies._--Emerson's Orations.--Tempest in a
washbowl concerning Divinity School Address.--John Carlyle--
Postscript by Mrs. Carlyle.
XXX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 15 November, 1838. Arrangements
concerning Miscellanies.--Employments, outlooks.--Concord not
forgotten, but Emerson to come first to England.--John Carlyle.
--Miss Martineau and her books.
XXXI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 2 December, 1838. Arrival of American
reprint of _Miscellanies._--English and American bookselling.--
Proposed second edition of _French Revolution._--Reading Horace
Walpole.--Sumner.--Dartmouth Oration.--Sterling.--Dwight's
German Translations.
XXXII. Emerson. Concord, 13 January, 1839. Business.--
Remittance of L100.--Lectures on Human Life.--Dr. Carlyle.
XXXIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 8 February, 1839. Acknowledgment of
remittance.--Arrangements for new edition of _French
Revolution._--London.--Wish for quiet.--Ill-health.--Suggestion
of writing on Cromwell.--Mr. Joseph Coolidge.--Divinity School
Address.--Mrs. Carlyle.--Gladstone cites from Emerson in his
Church and State.
XXXIV. Emerson. Concord, 15 March, 1839. Account of sales.--
Second series of _Miscellanies._--Ill wind raised by Address
blown over.--Lectures.--Birth of daughter.--_The Onyx Ring._
--Alcott.
XXXV. Emerson. Concord, 19 March, 1839. Need of copy to fill
out second series of _Miscellanies._--John S. Dwight.
XXXVI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 13 April, 1839. Solicitude on account
of Emerson's silence.--Gift to Mrs. Emerson.--Book business.
--New edition of _French Revolution._--New lectures.--Better
circumstances, better health.--Arthur Buller urges a visit to
America.--Milnes.--Emerson's growing popularity.
XXXVII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 17 April, 1839. Nothing in manuscript
fit for _Miscellanies._--Essay on Varnhagen.--Translation of
Goethe's _Mahrchen._--Cruthers and Jonson.--Dwight's book.
--Lectures.--Discontent among working people.
XXXVIII. Emerson. Boston, 20 April, 1839. Proposals of
publishers concerning _French Revolution._--Introduction of
Miss Sedgwick.
XXXIX. Emerson. Concord, 25 April, 1839. Account.--Sales
of books.
XL. Emerson. Concord, 28 April, 1839. Proposals of publishers
and accounts.
XLI. Emerson. Concord, 15 May, 1839. Arrangements with
publishers.--Matter for completion of fourth volume of
_Miscellanies._--Stearns Wheelers faithful labor.--Arthur
Buller's good witnessing.--Plans for Carlyle's visit to America.
--Milnes.--Copy of _Nature_ for him.
XLII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 29 May, 1839. Lectures happily over.--
Sansculottism.--Horse must be had.--Extempore speaking an art.--
Must lecture in America or write a book.--Wordsworth.--Sterling.
--Messages.
XLIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 24 June, 1839. Delay in arrival of
_Miscellanies._--Custom-house rapacities.--Accounts..--No longer
poor.--Emerson's work.--Miss Sedgwick.--Daniel Webster.--Proposed
visit to Scotland.--Sinking of the Vengeur.
XLIV. Emerson. Concord, 4 July, 1839. Proof-sheet of new
edition of _French Revolution_ received.--Gift to Mrs. Emerson of
engraving of Guido's Aurora.--Publishers' accounts.--Sterling.--
Occupations.--Margaret Fuller.
XLV. Emerson. Concord, 8 August, 1839. _Miscellanies_ sent.
--Daniel Webster.--Alcott.--Thoreau.
XLVI. Carlyle. Scotsbrig, Ecclefechan, 4 September, 1839.
Rusticating.--Arrival of _Miscellanies._--Errata.--Reprint of
_Wilhelm Meister._--Estimate of the book.--Copies of _French
Revolution_ sent.--Eager expectation of Emerson's book.--
Sterling.--Plans.
XLVII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 8 December, 1839. Long silence.--Stay
in Scotland.--Chartism.--Reprint of _Miscellanies._--Stearns
Wheeler.--_Wilhelm Meister._--Boston steamers.--Speculations
about Hegira into New England.--Visitor from America who had
never seen Emerson.--Miss Martineau.--Silence and speech.--
Sterling.--Southey.--No longer desperately poor.
XLVIII. Emerson. Concord, 12 December, 1839. Copies of _French
Revolution_ arrived.--Lectures on the Present Age.--Letter from
Sterling, his paper on Carlyle.--Friends.
XLIX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 6 January, 1840. _Chartism._--
Sterling.--Monckton Milnes, paper by him on Emerson.
L. Carlyle. Chelsea, 17 January, 1840. Export and import of
books.--New editions.--Books sent to Emerson.--Cromwell as a
subject for writing.--No appetite for lecturing.--Madame Necker
on Emerson.
LI. Emerson. New York, 18 March, 1840. New York.--Loss of faith
on entering cities.--Margaret Fuller to edit a journal.--Lectures
on the Present Age.--His children.--Renewed invitation.
LII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 1 April, 1840. Count D'Orsay, his
portrait of Carlyle.--Wages for books, due to Emerson.--Milnes's
review.--Heraud.--Landor.--Lectures in prospect on Heroes and
Hero-worship.
LIII. Emerson. Concord, 21 April, 1840. Introduction of Mr.
Grinnell.--Chartism.--Reprint of it.--At work on a book.--
Booksellers' accounts.--_The Dial._--Alcott.
LIV. Emerson. Concord, 30 June, 1840. _Wilhelm Meister_
received.--Landor.--Letter to Milnes.--Lithograph of Concord.
--_The Dial,_ No. 1.
LV. Carlyle. Chelsea, 2 July, 1840. Bibliopoliana.--Lectures
about Great Men.--Lecturing in America.--Milnes and his _Poems._
--Controversial volume from Ripley.
LVI. Emerson. Concord, 30 August, 1840. Booksellers' accounts.
