Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : London, to [W.D. Christie], [1840 May?].

BIB_ID
284591
Accession number
MA 741.12
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
[1840 May?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 11.8 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 "Thursday."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Telling him he needs more prospectuses to distribute; mentioning that he knows "slightly a young man called [G.H.] Lewes, and will speak to him by the first opportunity."