BIB_ID
292147
Accession number
MA 7349.4
Creator
Carlyle, Margaret Aitken, 1771-1853.
Display Date
[ca. 1849] Mar. 17.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 21.8 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).
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Saying that she hopes to see him to thank him for all his kindness; reporting that she is "in tolerable good health and richer than ever"; asking him to give her a "faithful account" of himself ("tell me all, everything is interesting to me"); telling him about a neighbor who died; asking him what church he attends; noting that she has been "busy reading Cowper's letters" and thinks them "very clever"; comparing Cowper's style of writing to Carlyle's.
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