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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 23 (search)
herished with corresponding tenderness and respect. I should like to proceed a little farther in this subject, but the bottom of my paper forbids. The following is from Ticknor again, and shows, though without giving details, that the young men had extended their observations beyond Gottingen:-- Gottingen, November 30, 1816. Dear sir,--On returning here about a fortnight since, after a journey through North Germany which had occupied us about two months, I found your kind letter of August 4 waiting to welcome me. I thank you for it with all my heart, and take the first moment of leisure I can find in the busy commencement of a new term, to answer it, that I may soon have the same pleasure again. You say you wish to hear from me what hours of relaxation I have, and what acquaintances I make, in this part of the Continent. The first is very easily told, and the last would not have been difficult before the journey from which I have just returned; but now the number is more t