Autograph letter signed : Geneva, to his brother, Thomas Carlyle, 1835 Sept. 5.

Discussing his reasons for deciding to leave Lady Clare's service; mentioning his strong reaction to Thomas Carlyle's last letter to him; commenting on the spread of cholera in Italy; noting that he will be in Munich with Lady Clare for the next month; telling him that he does "not see the force of [Thomas Carlyle's] objection to coming to spend October" with him in Munich; arguing that "the expense would be smaller than [he] think[s]"; remarking, "what you want is rest, and external deliverance from that task which you are working much too hard at"; suggesting that they should at least meet in Paris if his brother "persist[s] in not coming to Munich"; speculating that "part of Jane [Carlyle]'s illness at least is owing to the fever [Thomas Carlyle is] in with that task"; telling him that he goes to the hospital in Geneva every day at the invitation of a doctor who was a student with him in Edinburgh; adding that a relation of Madame de Staël introduced him to "a good public library and reading room" in Geneva; exhorting him to write as soon as he can and not to reject his "German and Paris project without deliberation"; asking him to tell their mother that he hopes to see her soon.