BIB_ID
284482
Accession number
MA 741.5
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
1840 Apr. 15?
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 18.7 x 22.4 cm
Notes
Part of a bound collection of 56 letters and notes from Thomas Carlyle, 7 signed receipts, 4 prints, and a photograph; items in the collection are described individually (MA 741.1-68).
The letter is dated "Wednesday" and postmarked "AP 16 1840," a Thursday. The letter's speculative date assumes Carlyle wrote it the Wednesday before the postmark.
With postmark and seal; addressed to W.D. Christie, 4 Harcourt Buildings, Temple.
The letter is dated "Wednesday" and postmarked "AP 16 1840," a Thursday. The letter's speculative date assumes Carlyle wrote it the Wednesday before the postmark.
With postmark and seal; addressed to W.D. Christie, 4 Harcourt Buildings, Temple.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Giving him names of men, including Sir James Clark, [Erasmus Alvey] Darwin, and [George Lillie] Craik, who want "prospectuses and circulars" to distribute.
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