BIB_ID
284670
Accession number
MA 741.20
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
1841 Jan. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19 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
Expressing concern that he has not heard from [John] Cochrane recently; mentioning that he saw another candidate for the librarian position named Fisher who was "totally without experience" and "without habit of selfdirection in any kind"; asking for Christie's opinion about a third candidate named Washbourne.
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