BIB_ID
106172
Accession number
MA 1634
Creator
Cunningham, Allan, 1784-1842.
Display Date
London, England, 1834(?).
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1955.
Description
1 item (1 page, with addres) ; 20.2 x 12.6 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Address panel to "David Wilkie Esq. / Kensington."
Written from "Belgrave Place Monday."
An earlier record for this letter suggests the year of writing may have been 1834. Cunningham met Carlyle in 1831. James Hogg published "The Domestic Manner and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott" in 1834.
Address panel to "David Wilkie Esq. / Kensington."
Written from "Belgrave Place Monday."
An earlier record for this letter suggests the year of writing may have been 1834. Cunningham met Carlyle in 1831. James Hogg published "The Domestic Manner and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott" in 1834.
Provenance
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1955.
Summary
Introducing him to Thomas Carlyle; saying "I have much pleasure in making you acquainted with my friend Thomas Carlyle a true Scotsman, an accomplished scholar and man of fine natural genius. He has heard of your fame among the mountains - and who has not - and longs much to shake that gifted right hand that has honored the mother land so greatly. I have been on Yarrow w'h The Shepherd of Ettrick at Abbotsford and Chiefswood and have much to tell you which I must soon take an opportunity of doing. Our regards to Miss Wilkie.
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