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OF EMERSON'S BROTHERS.
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cheek, as one engaged, throughout his being, no longer an individual, but to the common
to the service of
good of
all
men."
In 1834 Emerson's brother Edward died, as already mentioned, in the West India island where he had gone for his health. In his letter
November 12th of the same year, " Your letter, which I received says made a last week, bright light in a solitary and I had quite recently received saddened place. to Carlyle, of
Emerson
:
the news of the death of a brother in the island of Porto Eico, whose loss to
me
will
be a
life
long sorrow." It was of him that Emerson wrote the lines " In Memoriam," in which he says, " There
is
no record
left
on earth
Save on tablets of the heart,
Of the rich, inherent worth, Of the grace that on him shone Of eloquent lips, of joyful wit He could not frame a word unfit, ;
An
act unworthy to be done."
Another bereavement was too soon corded.
On
to be re
the 7th of October, 1835, he says
in a letter to Carlyle
:
" I was very glad to hear of the brother you describe, for I
have one
lawyer
now
and know what
it is to have pres Charles Chauncy Emerson is a settled in this town, and, as I believe, no
too,
ence in two places.