BIB_ID
284842
Accession number
MA 741.57
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
1848 June 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 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
Thanking him for a "packet" he sent him; commenting on Lord Robertson's "important decision of a social question in which all good Scotchmen take interest"; asking him to send further tidings of "what the Inner House resolves upon" in the matter.
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