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1840

The Collected Letters, Volume 12

TC TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON ; 5 February 1840; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18400205-TC-RWE-01; CL 12: 29

TC TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Chelsea, London 5 Feby / 1840—

Dear Emerson,

Mr Alexander Hume 1 a respectable Scottish man, an acquaintance of mine, is about visiting New York; partly, I think, for the benefit of the sail in a medicinal point of view. He has plenty of introductions to Commercial people; but would like to see some Literary person or persons, being himself withal a lover of Literature and worker therein.

I give him this Note, in case of need, to be forwarded to you with his New York address; that you may do therein what your goodness and insight shall direct.

Your ever truly /

T. Carlyle

Sourcenote

TC-RWE, 5 Feb. MS: Strouse. Quot: Slater, CEC 268n.

Footnotes

1. Alexander Hume (1809–51), poet, ed. Scottish Songs (London, 1835) and English Songs and Ballads (London, 1838); agent in London for a brewer's firm. Hume sent this letter to Emerson from New York. Emerson sent him letters of introduction to his brother William Emerson, Orville Dewey, and William Cullen Bryant, and told TC, 30 Aug.: “Mr. Hume has never yet shown his face here. He sent me his Poems from New York, & then went South, & I know no more of him” (Slater, CEC 268n., 278).

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SUBJECT / RECIPIENT INDICES

	Subject terms: Emerson William Hume Alexander New York Writing > A—s a profession
	Recipient terms: Emerson Ralph Waldo