quitted the roaring city, and gone
back in peace to his own land,--not the man he left it, but
richer every way, chiefly in the sense of having done something
valiantly and well, which the land, and the lands, and all that
wide elastic English race in all their dispersion, will know and
thank him for. The holy gifts of nature and solitude be showered
upon you! Do you not believe that the fields and woods have
their proper virtue, and that there are good and great things
which will not be spoken in the city? I give you joy in your new
and rightful home, and the same greetings to Jane Carlyle! with
thanks and hopes and loves to you both.

--R.W. Emerson

As usual at this season of the year, I, incorrigible spouting
Yankee, am writing an oration to deliver to the boys in one of
our little country colleges, nine days hence.* You will say I do
not deserve the aid of any Muse. O but if you knew how natural
it is to me to run to these places! Besides, I always am lured
on by the hope of saying something which shall stick by the good
boys. I hope Brown did not fail to find you, with thirty-eight
sovereigns (I believe) which he should carry you.

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* "The Method of Nature. An Address to the Society of the
Adelphi, in Waterville College, Maine, August 11, 1841."
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LXVIII. Carlyle to Emerson

Newby, Annan, Scotland, 18 August, 1841

My Dear Emerson,--Two days ago your Letter, direct from
Liverpool, reached me here; only fifteen days after date on the
other side of the Ocean: one of the swiftest messengers that
have yet come from you. Steamers have been known to come, they
say, in nine days. By and by we shall visibly be, what I always
say we virtually are, members of neighboring Parishes; paying
continual visits to one another. What is to hinder huge London
from being to universal Saxondom what small Mycale was to the
Tribes of Greece,--a place to hold your [Greek] in? A meeting of
_All the English_ ought to be as good as one of All the Ionians;
--and as Homeric "equal ships" are to Bristol steamers, so, or
somewhat so, may New York and New Holland be to Ephesus and
Crete, with their distances, relations, and etceteras!--Few
things on this Earth look to me greater than the Future of that
Family of Men.

It is some two months since I got into this region; my Wife
followed me with her maid and equipments some five weeks ago.
Newington Lodge, when I came to i