l quite out of the way of
celebrated persons, more especially celebrated women. This Mrs.
Austin, who is half ruined by celebrity (of a kind), is the only
woman I have seen not wholly ruined by it. Men, strong men, I
have seen die of it, or go mad by it. _Good_ fortune is far
worse than bad!

Will you write with all despatch, my dear sir; fancy me a
fellow-wayfarer, who cordially bids you God-speed, and would
fain keep in sight of you, within sound of you.

Yours with great sincerity,
T. Carlyle

V. Emerson to Carlyle

Concord, 12 March, 1838

My Dear Sir,--I am glad of the opportunity of Mr. Barnard's*
visit to say health and peace be with you. I esteem it the best
sign that has shone in my little section of space for many days,
that some thirty or more intelligent persons understand and
highly appreciate the _Sartor._ Dr. Channing sent to me for it
the other day, and I have since heard that he had read it with
great interest. As soon as I go into town I shall see him and
measure his love. I know his genius does not and cannot engage
your attention much. He possesses the mysterious endowment of
natural eloquence, whose effect, however intense, is limited, of
course, to personal communication. I can see myself that his
writings, without his voice, may be meagre and feeble. But
please love his catholicism, that at his age can relish the
_Sartor,_ born and inveterated as he is in old books. Moreover,
he lay awake all night, he told my friend last week, because he
had learned in the evening that some young men proposed to issue
a journal, to be called _The Transcendentalist,_ as the organ of
a spiritual philosophy. So much for our gossip of today.

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* Mr. Henry Barnard, of Hartford, Connecticut, to whom Emerson
had given a note of introduction to Carlyle.
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But my errand is yet to tell. Some friends here are very
desirous that Mr. Fraser should send out to a bookseller here
fifty or a hundred copies of the _Sartor._ So many we want very
much; they would be sold at once. If we knew that two or three
hundred would be taken up, we should reprint it now. But we
think it better to satisfy the known inquirers for the book
first, and when they have extended the demand for it, then to
reproduce it, a naturalized Yankee. The lovers of Teufelsdrockh
here are sufficiently enthusiastic. I am an icicle to them.
They think England must be blind and deaf if t