The widow of one of the noblest of our young martyrs in the War,
Col. Lowell,* cousin [nephew] of James Russell Lowell, sends me
word that she wishes me to give her a note of introduction to
you, confiding to me that she has once written a letter to you
which procured her the happiest reply from you, and I shall obey
her, and you will see her and own her rights. Still continue to
be magnanimous to your friend,

--R.W. Emerson

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* Charles Russell Lowell, to be remembered always with honor in
company with his brother James Jackson Lowell and his cousin
William Lowell Putnam,--a shining group among the youths who have
died for their country.
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CLXXXVII. Carlyle to Emerson

5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, 4 June, 1871

Dear Emerson,--Your Letter gave me great pleasure. A gleam of
sunshine after a long tract of lowering weather. It is not you
that are to blame for this sad gap in our correspondence; it is
I, or rather it is my misfortunes, and miserable inabilities,
broken resolutions, etc., etc. The truth is, the winter here was
very unfriendly to me; broke ruinously into my sleep; and