BIB_ID
284793
Accession number
MA 741.42
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
[1849 May 22?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.2 cm
Notes
John Davis helped edit Carlyle's Oliver Cromwell's life and letters; see MA 741.35.
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).
The letter is dated "Tuesday night"; the speculative date above is based on the letter's date in Ryals & Fielding.
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).
The letter is dated "Tuesday night"; the speculative date above is based on the letter's date in Ryals & Fielding.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Asking him to retain the lists of committee-men he made; giving him directions about certain notes he would like added to the men's names.
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