BIB_ID
284671
Accession number
MA 741.21
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
[1840 Dec. 9?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 18.8 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).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Complimenting Christie on the circular he has constructed; noting that they must find the best possible man to be the librarian and then set him to the task of acquiring materials; mentioning Fisher, one of the candidates for the librarian position.
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