BIB_ID
284738
Accession number
MA 741.28
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
1845 Dec. 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 19.7 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
Discussing the unauthorized publication of his book [Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches] in America by Wiley and Putnam; stating that the amount Wiley and Putnam have offered to pay him is not enough; suggesting that they ought to pay him "the clear market-value of the goods they have smuggled from" him as laid out in the "terms offered by Messrs Homan & Ellis." The letter mentions his friend [Ralph Waldo] Emerson.
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