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… Moxonl informs us that … Tennyson is now in Town, and means to come and see me. Of this latter result I shall be very glad: Alfred is one of the few British or foreign figures (a not increasing number, I think!) who are and remain beautiful to me;—a true human soul, or some authentic approximation thereto, to whom your own soul can say, Brother!—However, I doubt h[e] will not come; he often skips me, in these brief visits to Town; skips [every]-body indeed; being a man solitary and sad, as certain men are, dwelling in an element of gloom,—carrying a bit of Chaos about him, in short, which he is manufacturing into Cosmos!
The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle, ed. Joseph Slater (New York: Columbia University Press, 1964) p. 363.
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Edward Moxon (1801–58) published some of Tennyson’s poems.
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Carlyle, T. (1983). A Bit of Chaos. In: Page, N. (eds) Tennyson. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07803-5_7
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