BIB_ID
195892
Accession number
MA 13660
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
1854 July 14.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 21.8 x 13.2 cm
Notes
Carlyle's friend, Scottish born James Marshall, was residing in Weimer at this time and serving as Secretary to the Grand Duchess Sophie.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
A letter of introduction for Mr. G. H. [George Henry] Lewes, recommending him as an "ingenious brilliant, entertaining, highly gifted and accomplished man and writer, will deliver you this little Note in Weimar, where he purposes to rest himself among you for certain weeks"; and requesting that Marshall make him welcome during his time in Weimer performing research for his Life of Goethe ("I have promised that you will open all reasonable paths to him in those inquiries, and do for him whatsoever you can in the way of friendly welcome, - which, for his own sake, you will soon find that he well deserves of you ... Pray be good to him, all of you, while he sojourns in your old city.").
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