BIB_ID
284356
Accession number
MA 68.10
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
1841 May 3.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Dear Bairn."
Part of a collection of 7 letters from Jane Welsh Carlyle, 2 letters from Thomas Carlyle, and 2 prints; described in 11 individual records (MA 68.1-11).
Part of a collection of 7 letters from Jane Welsh Carlyle, 2 letters from Thomas Carlyle, and 2 prints; described in 11 individual records (MA 68.1-11).
Summary
Giving details of his trip to Templand; discussing a visit to Jane Carlyle's mother; telling Jane that her uncle Robert has died; mentioning that he wrote to Harriet Martineau to see if he could call on her in Newcastle; pining for home: "o that I were home beside thee, Dearikin; home even in London!"
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