BIB_ID
197475
Accession number
MA 13674
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
undated.
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Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 15.5 x 18.2 cm
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A draft, with numerous corrections, of a portion of Thomas Carlyle's introductory text to letter 33 in his Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Draft of his introduction to "Letter 33" in the posthumously published Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle; beginning mid-word with "[superi] -or people both; persons of sound judgment, of considerable culture and experience, of thoroughly polite manners (Madam considerably in the Indian style, as ex-'queen of Calcutta,' which she was, with a great deal of sheet-lightning in her ways), and concluding, " Mrs. B. was, by maiden name, Kirkpatrick, a scion of the (Dumfriesshire) Closeburn people, wch, in its sort, formed another little tie."
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