BIB_ID
284874
Accession number
MA 741.68
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
1863 Mar. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 11 x 17.2 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).
The letter is addressed to "Dear Sir."
The letter is addressed to "Dear Sir."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
A short note clarifying an unidentified passage: "you are not to stumble at that pasage. It means only that there is pity in our heart for all the dead, and no angel more."
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