BIB_ID
284487
Accession number
MA 741.7
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
1840 Apr. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 22.5 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).
With postmark and seal, addressed to W.D. Christie, Boldnor, Lymington, Hants [Hampshire].
With postmark and seal, addressed to W.D. Christie, Boldnor, Lymington, Hants [Hampshire].
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Telling Christie he forwarded his letter to Craik who will respond directly; giving background information and statistics for the Advocates' Library; noting that [Thomas] Ruddiman and David Hume were librarians at the Advocates' Library; describing differences between the British Library and the Advocates' Library; mentioning that the Spectator came.
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