BIB_ID
284680
Accession number
MA 741.27
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
1845 Dec. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.9 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
Complaining of "an ugly falsehood on the part of Wiley and Putnam in New York" regarding an edition of his Cromwell he believes they are publishing without permission; mentioning that [Ralph Waldo] Emerson sent him a letter on the matter; asking Chapman and Hall to deny that they gave Wiley and Putnam permission to print his book to "stamp them publicy for the hungry thievish hyaenas that they are"; asking him to contact Sotheby to determine who has two letters written by Oliver Cromwell that were auctioned there.
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