BIB_ID
284741
Accession number
MA 741.30
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
[1846 Apr. 24?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 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
Announcing that [Ralph Waldo] Emerson has arranged "a bargain with Wiley and Putnam about the 2d edition of Cromwell; and Mr. Putnam has just been here himself, engaging to do all that is honourable ... relative to the first edition too"; describing a change needed in an inscription in the book.
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