I am here) in preference to the Liverpool ones, it will all be
well. As for the next Letter, (if you write as I hope you may
before hearing from me again,) pray direct it, "Care of John
Mill, Esq., India House, London"; and he will forward it
directly, should I even be still absent in the North.--Now will
you write? and pray write something about yourself. We both love
you here, and send you all good prayers. _Vale faveque!_

Yours ever,
T. Carlyle



IX. Emerson to Carlyle*

Concord, 7 October, 1835

My Dear Friend,--Please God I will never again sit six weeks of
this short human life over a letter of yours without answering it.

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* The original of this letter is missing; what is printed here
is from the rough draft.
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I received in August your letter of June, and just then hearing
that a lady, a little lady with a mighty heart, Mrs. Child,* whom
I scarcely know but do much respect, was about to visit England
(invited thither for work's sake by the African or Abolition
Society) and that she begged an introduction to you, I used