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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 12 (search)
y, May, 1872). He wrote also an admirable volume of lectures on the Nature and Elements of poetry for delivery at Johns Hopkins University. As years went on, our correspondence inevitably grew less close. On March 10, 1893, he wrote, I am so driven at this season, let alone financial worries, that I have to write letters when and where I can. Then follows a gap of seven years; in 1900 his granddaughter writes on October 25, conveying affectionate messages from him; two years after, April 2, 1903, he writes himself in the same key, then adds, Owing to difficulties absolutely beyond my control, I have written scarcely a line for myself since the Yale bicentennial [1901] ; and concludes, I am very warmly your friend and kinsman. It was a full, easy, and natural communication, like his old letters; but it was four years later when I heard from him again as follows, in a letter which I will not withhold, in spite of what may be well regarded as its over-sensitiveness and somewhat ex