BIB_ID
101385
Accession number
MA 987.3
Creator
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.
Display Date
[1842-1845] Dec. 13.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Addressed to Carlyle at 5 Cheyné Row, Chelsea.
Miss Chapman is likely the daughter of Thomas Chapman, a merchant and benefactor who associated in the 1840s with Charles Dickens and Leigh Hunt.--Cf. Gates, p. 640.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Leigh Hunt. See collection record for MA 987 for more information.
Probably added to this collection in ca. 1923.
Written from Kensington and dated "Dec. 13" by Hunt. Year supplied by Gates, p. 641.
Miss Chapman is likely the daughter of Thomas Chapman, a merchant and benefactor who associated in the 1840s with Charles Dickens and Leigh Hunt.--Cf. Gates, p. 640.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Leigh Hunt. See collection record for MA 987 for more information.
Probably added to this collection in ca. 1923.
Written from Kensington and dated "Dec. 13" by Hunt. Year supplied by Gates, p. 641.
Summary
Introducing Miss Chapman and Miss Rolleston, noting that they are "great admirers of German, and of men of genius, & all good & helpful things," and that they wish to consult Carlyle on a "literary matter." Stating that Miss Chapman has anonymously translated works from Swedish, and assuming that Carlyle knows of her family as "one of our first mercantile houses."
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