Autograph letter signed : Munich, to his brother, Thomas Carlyle, 1835 Dec. 8.

Observing that he has not heard from him in a long time, but he is writing anyway because he has news of his winter destination; reporting that Lady Clare plans to stay in Munich until April first if her brother's health does not get worse; telling him that he has "found some practice among the English" in Munich and is earning money; noting that he stopped with "that translation of the German Physiology" because "the work on nearer inspection [was] rather empty and unpractical, the style clumsy and long-winded"; lamenting that he is separated from his country and his brother, and observing that "every arrangement [he] can make is temporary"; mentioning that he "see[s Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von] Schelling not infrequently and attend[s] his lectures on the philosophy of mythology"; calling Schelling "the clearest-headed man [he] ever heard speak"; adding that he introduced William Fraser to the lectures, but his German is not yet good enough to get much out of them; discussing his arrangements with Lady Clare; warning his brother not to "throw [him]self into that feverish eagerness which is inconsistent with health" while working on "the continuation of [his] history" [of the French Revolution]; explaining an idea for how he could practice medicine in London; hoping Jane [Carlyle] is better; asking him to pass on a message to their mother.