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Autograph letter signed : Dublin, to Jane Welsh Carlyle, 1849 July 5.

BIB_ID
292142
Accession number
MA 7349.2
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
1849 July 5.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22 cm
Notes
Part of a collection that includes a photograph of Thomas Carlyle with a separate signed inscription; two letters from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Welsh Carlyle; and one letter from Margaret Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle's mother, to her son. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 7349.1-4).
Written from the Imperial Hotel.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Telling her he received her "two beautiful letters yesterday"; referring to his wife as "my friend of friends in this world, and in all worlds, forevermore; describing his attempts to deliver letters of introduction; discussing the people he met; mentioning people who called on him.