BIB_ID
377086
Accession number
MA 1080.20
Creator
Carlyle, John Aitken, 1801-1879.
Display Date
1834 Dec. 27.
Credit line
Purchased, 1929.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 26.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Thomas Carlyle Esq. / 5 Cheyne Row / Chelsea / London."
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased from E.D. North, 1929.
Summary
Commenting on the death of their friend, Edward Irving; giving details of his stay in Rome; reporting that he did ask Lady Clare for permission to practice in Rome, and that his "proposal seems only to have had the effect of simplifying [their] relation to each other and so making if more agreeable to all parties"; describing his quarrels with Miss Hoare, an Irish girl also with Lady Clare; telling him that he has read his Sartor Resartus "again and marked all the best passages which [he] turn[s] to almost daily and find[s] more and more significant"; noting that he thinks Thomas is "too anxious about pecuniary matters"; adding that he thinks he will be able to "renew [his] engagement with Lady Clare on perhaps better terms" or find something else similar.
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