BIB_ID
101571
Accession number
MA 23526
Creator
Milnes, Richard Monckton, Baron Houghton, 1809-1885.
Display Date
York, England, 1841 July 12.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.7 x 18.8 xm
Notes
Written from the "Grand Jury Room. York."
Date of writing from postmark.
From Carlyle. Letters, etc.
Address panel with postage stamp, postmarks and fragments of a seal to "Thos. Carlyle Esq're / 5 Cheyne Row / Chelsea / London / R.M. Milnes."
Date of writing from postmark.
From Carlyle. Letters, etc.
Address panel with postage stamp, postmarks and fragments of a seal to "Thos. Carlyle Esq're / 5 Cheyne Row / Chelsea / London / R.M. Milnes."
Summary
Saying "Finding myself justicing here (notwithstanding all Falstaff says against Grand Jury-men) my thoughts go back to the Court House at Pontefract & your face sympathetic with every vagabond. So I must write to ask you how you do & what you are doing & about to do. Shall I see you in or about London in August when the great Inquest again meets over the dead body of the Nation, or will you come & see me at Fryston for the first fortnight in that month! - I rejoice that you republish Emerson's noble book. I think the two Essays on Prudence & Compensation the wisest things that have come out of your school - you Scotch Plato! I hope my Review will have attracted some attention to his name & give the book a start, which is all that it wants. You see the country in general does not take your view of the Corn Laws...the question is by no means the plain & easy one you fancy it. I am in hopes Sir Robert will settle it by taking it as a part of a complete remission of the whole scheme of Import duties. I see nothing but Sir Peel (as the French call him) between us & Chartism. So the harmonious blacksmith takes an Irascible to wife; - it will complete his knowledge of the Inductive sciences. Sidney Smith must have a decalogue of jokes on the subject."
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