anything new bearing on this business. I intended to have
despatched this letter a day or two sooner, that it might go by
the packet of the 1st of May from New York. Now it will go by
that of the 8th, and ought to reach you in thirty days. Send me
your thoughts upon it as soon as you can. I _jalouse_ of that
new book. I fear its success may mar my project.

Yours affectionately,
R. Waldo Emerson




VII. Carlyle to Emerson

5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London
13 May, 1835

Thanks, my kind friend, for the news you again send me. Good
news, good new friends; nothing that is not good comes to me
across these waters. As if the "Golden West" seen by Poets were
no longer a mere optical phenomenon, but growing a reality, and
coining itself into solid blessings! To me it seems very
strange; as indeed generally this whole Existence here below
more and more does.

We have seen your Barnard: a most modest, intelligent, compact,
hopeful-looking man, who will not revisit you without conquests
from his expedition hither. We expect to see much more of
him; to instruct him, to learn of him: especially about that