BIB_ID
284843
Accession number
MA 741.58
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
1851 Jan. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (10 p.) ; 21.6 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
Describing his efforts to find a publisher for her manuscript, Miriam Sedley; noting that the publishers think she should publish it "piecemeal in a Magazine"; telling her that he asked about publishing the manuscript in Fraser's magazine but awaits her permission to give Fraser's the manuscript to preview; giving Jane Welsh Carlyle's opinions on how she could improve the manuscript; mentioning that he doesn't think much money can be made from the manuscript; suggesting that perhaps her ex-husband, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, could be persuaded to increase her meager allowance.
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