Record ID:
118046
Accession number:
MA 1080.9
Credit:
Purchased, 1929.
Description:
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes:
With a separate cover sheet addressed to "T. Carlyle Esqr. / at the Revd. Edward Irving's / Middleton Terrace / Pentonville."
Address sheet with postmark and trace of a seal; date is from postmark.
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
Summary:
Expressing her wish that the "discontinuance of [his] connexion with the [Charles] Buller family might not throw any impediment in the way" of his ongoing acquaintance with her family [Carlyle had been acting as tutor to her nephew, also named Charles Buller, but had recently left this position]; inviting him to visit before he leaves town; discussing her impressions of [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe's Wilhelm Meister.
Provenance:
Purchased from E.D. North, 1929.
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