The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I | Page 3

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. --Faith cold concerning
Carlyle's coming to America.-- Transcendentalism and _The Dial._--Social
problems.--Character of his writing.--Charles Sumner.
LVII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 26 September, 1840. Not to go to America for the
present.--_Heroes and Hero-Worship._--Journey on horseback.--Reading on
Cromwell.--Dial No. 1.--Puseyism.--Dr. Sewell on Carlyle.--Landor.--Sterling.
LVIII. Emerson. Concord, 30 October, 1840. Booksellers' accounts.--Projects of social
reform.--Studies unproductive. --Hopes to print a book of essays.
LIX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 9 December, 1840. Booksellers' carelessness and
accounts.--Puseyism.--Dial No. 2.--Goethe. --Miss Martineau's _Hour and
Man._--Working in Cromwellism.
LX. Carlyle. Chelsea, 21 February, 1841. To Mrs. Emerson.-- London transmuted by her
alchemy.--Hope of seeing Concord. --Miss Martineau.--Toussaint l'Ouverture.--Sheets of
_Heroes and Hero-worship_ sent to Emerson.
LXI. Emerson. Concord, 28 February, 1841. Accounts.--Essays soon to appear.--Lecture
on Reform.
LXII. Emerson. Boston, 30 April, 1841. Remittance of L100.-- Accounts.--Piratical
reprint of _Heroes and Hero-worship._-- Dial No. 4.
LXIII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 8 May, 1841. Visit to Milnes.--To his Mother.--Emerson's
_Essays._--His own condition.
LXIV. Carlyle. Chelsea, 21 May, 1841. Acknowledgment of remittance of
L100.--Unauthorized American reprint of _Heroes and Hero-worship._--Improvement in
circumstances.--Desire for solitude.--Article on Emerson in _Fraser's Magazine._
LXV. Emerson. Concord, 30 May, 1841. Accounts.--Book by Jones Very.--_Heroes and
Hero-worship._--Thoreau.
LXVI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 25 June, 1841. Proposed stay at Annan. --Motives for
it.--London reprint of Emerson's Essays.--Rio.
LXVII. Emerson. Concord, 31 July, 1841. London reprint of _Essays._--Carlyle in his
own land.--Writing an oration.
LXVIII. Carlyle. Newby, Annan, Scotland, 18 August, 1841. Speedy receipt of
letter.--Stay in Scotland.--Seclusion and sadness.--Reprint of Emerson's
_Essays._--Shipwreck.
LXIX. Emerson. Concord, 30 October, 1841. Pleasure in English reprint of
_Essays._--Lectures on the Times.--Opportunities of the Lecture-room.--Accounts.
LXX. Emerson. Concord, 14 November, 1841. Remittance of L40.-- His
banker.--Gambardella.--Preparation for lectures on the Times.
LXXI. Carlyle. Chelsea, 19 November, 1841. Gambardella.-- Lawrence's
portrait.--Emerson's Essays in England.--Address at Waterville College.--_The
Dial._--Emerson's criticism on Landor.
LXXII. Carlyle. Chelsea, 6 December, 1841. Acknowledgment of remittance of

L40.--American funds.--Landor.--Emerson's Lectures.
LXXIII. Emerson. New York, 28 February, 1842. Remittance of L48.--American
investments.--Death of his son.--Alcott going to England.
LXXIV. Carlyle. Templand, 28 March, 1842. Sympathy, with Emerson.--Death of Mrs.
Carlyle's mother.--At Templand to settle affairs.--Life there.--A book on Cromwell
begun.
LXXV. Emerson. Concord, 31 March, 1842. Bereavement.--Alcott going to
England.--Editorship of _Dial._--Mr. Henry Lee.-- Lectures in New York.
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CORRESPONDENCE OF CARLYLE AND EMERSON
At the beginning of his "English Traits," Mr. Emerson, writing of his visit to England in
1833, when he was thirty years old, says that it was mainly the attraction of three or four
writers, of whom Carlyle was one, that had led him to Europe. Carlyle's name was not
then generally known, and it illustrates Emerson's mental attitude that he should have
thus early recognized his genius, and felt sympathy with it.
The decade from 1820 to 1830 was a period of unusual dulness in English thought and
imagination. All the great literary reputations belonged to the beginning of the century,
Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, had said their say. The intellectual
life of the new generation had not yet found expression. But toward the end of this time a
series of articles, mostly on German literature, appearing in the Edinburgh and in the
Foreign Quarterly Review, an essay on Burns, another on Voltaire, still more a paper
entitled "Characteristics," displayed the