BIB_ID
284818
Accession number
MA 741.51
Creator
Aitken, Mary Carlyle, 1848-1895.
Display Date
1870 July 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.5 cm
Notes
Mary Aitken is writing the letter for her uncle, Thomas Carlyle.
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).
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
Asking the unnamed recipient to send various portraits that were going to be used in Carlyle's Friedrich and Cromwell; requesting a note of Carlyle's account until June 22; reporting on Carlyle's poor health and his upcoming trip to Craigenputtock.
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