EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Autograph letter signed ("R. Waldo Emerson") to David H. Barlow, Providence, 15 February 1842. 4 pages, 4to, 253 x 202mm. (10 x 8in.), address panel on central portion of page 4, trifling repairs to a few fold intersections, otherwise in good condition. THE SAGE OF CONCORD DESCRIBES HIS FRIEND, THOMAS CARLYLE A lengthy letter which richly evokes the important literary and intellectual connections between the Concord author and the English critic, Carlyle. Emerson has received "with great pleasure and interest" Barlow's inquiry regarding Carlyle: "It must be now four or five years since Carlyle wrote me that 'he was now forty years old'..." Emerson reviews Carlyle's early life, education and marraige to Jane Welch, then continues, "when I saw him in 1833 [he] was living on a farm called Craigenputtock...and writing literary and critical articles...In the beginning of 1854 he left Scotland and went to London, as he informed me, literally to seek for bread and work;' he lived at Chelsea next door to Leigh Hunt...He has never been out of Britain...Ever since the publication of his 'French Revolution,' he has been growing daily into popularity & influence in England...his History which was the work of two laborious years made him known & honored at home...I remember when I visited him in Scotland, he told me that not one person in Britain had expressed to him any interest in his writings..." Emerson recounts the well known story of the accidental destruction of the manuscript of The French Revolution : "One volume of that book in MS. was lent to me, and whilst in his possession was by some terrible carelessness mutilated and destroyed. Carlyle sat down, strong man that he is, and wrote it all again." "He is a great hearted brave and gentle person from whom you are always sure of honor and kindness and truth. His conversation is strong humorous picturesque, nay panoramic like his writing. He speaks in a broad Scotch accent with native good will. He is tall slender well-made...and is a person whom you would remark in any company for the intellectual strength expressed in his head...What else can I tell you? I remember he said to me that Sterne's Tristram Shandy was his great book in early youth and that Rousseau's Confessions first taught him that he (C) was not a fool. He is described by those who know him intimately (Harriet Martineau, for example) to be a great and constant sufferer from morbid constitution. She says 'stretched always on an invisible rack' and that this accounts for the causticity and severity continually expressed in his conversation...." Emerson describes two portraits of Carlyle, then observes that "my dear old friend this is a very remote way of dealing with the matter. Tomorrow I am going home, and...I have a great pile of his letters and letters about him...My mother lives with me and will be made happy by seeing you again..."
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Autograph letter signed ("R. Waldo Emerson") to David H. Barlow, Providence, 15 February 1842. 4 pages, 4to, 253 x 202mm. (10 x 8in.), address panel on central portion of page 4, trifling repairs to a few fold intersections, otherwise in good condition. THE SAGE OF CONCORD DESCRIBES HIS FRIEND, THOMAS CARLYLE A lengthy letter which richly evokes the important literary and intellectual connections between the Concord author and the English critic, Carlyle. Emerson has received "with great pleasure and interest" Barlow's inquiry regarding Carlyle: "It must be now four or five years since Carlyle wrote me that 'he was now forty years old'..." Emerson reviews Carlyle's early life, education and marraige to Jane Welch, then continues, "when I saw him in 1833 [he] was living on a farm called Craigenputtock...and writing literary and critical articles...In the beginning of 1854 he left Scotland and went to London, as he informed me, literally to seek for bread and work;' he lived at Chelsea next door to Leigh Hunt...He has never been out of Britain...Ever since the publication of his 'French Revolution,' he has been growing daily into popularity & influence in England...his History which was the work of two laborious years made him known & honored at home...I remember when I visited him in Scotland, he told me that not one person in Britain had expressed to him any interest in his writings..." Emerson recounts the well known story of the accidental destruction of the manuscript of The French Revolution : "One volume of that book in MS. was lent to me, and whilst in his possession was by some terrible carelessness mutilated and destroyed. Carlyle sat down, strong man that he is, and wrote it all again." "He is a great hearted brave and gentle person from whom you are always sure of honor and kindness and truth. His conversation is strong humorous picturesque, nay panoramic like his writing. He speaks in a broad Scotch accent with native good will. He is tall slender well-made...and is a person whom you would remark in any company for the intellectual strength expressed in his head...What else can I tell you? I remember he said to me that Sterne's Tristram Shandy was his great book in early youth and that Rousseau's Confessions first taught him that he (C) was not a fool. He is described by those who know him intimately (Harriet Martineau, for example) to be a great and constant sufferer from morbid constitution. She says 'stretched always on an invisible rack' and that this accounts for the causticity and severity continually expressed in his conversation...." Emerson describes two portraits of Carlyle, then observes that "my dear old friend this is a very remote way of dealing with the matter. Tomorrow I am going home, and...I have a great pile of his letters and letters about him...My mother lives with me and will be made happy by seeing you again..."
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