New York to be repiled architecturally along shore from Canada to
Cuba, and thence west to California again. John Bull interests
you at home, and is all your subject. Come and see the
Jonathanization of John. What, you scorn all this? Well, then,
come and see a few good people, impossible to be seen on any
other shore, who heartily and always greet you. There is a very
serious welcome for you here. And I too shall wake from sleep.
My wife entreats that an invitation shall go from her to you.

Faithfully yours,
R.W. Emerson




CLV. Carlyle to Emerson

Chelsea, 8 April, 1854

Dear Emerson,--It was a morning not like any other which lay
round it, a morning to be marked white, that one, about a week
ago, when your Letter came to me; a word from you yet again,
after so long a silence! On the whole, I perceive you will not
utterly give up answering me, but will rouse yourself now and
then to a word of human brotherhood on my behalf, so long as we
both continue in this Planet. And I declare, the Heavens will
reward you; and as to me, I will be thankful for what I get, and
submissive to delays and to all things: all things are good
compared with flat want in that respect. It remains true, and
will remain, what I have often told you, that properly there is