BIB_ID
284652
Accession number
MA 741.19
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
[1840 Apr. 6?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 11.3 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).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Noting an error they made in their lithograph and asking Christie to correct it; mentioning that Cole will take more prospectuses; encouraging Christie to "write an emphatic pamphlet" and "a dozen emphatic newspaper articles" in support of the library; giving the lithographer's address.
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