Autograph letter signed : Geneva, to his brother, Thomas Carlyle, 1836 Sept. 27-28.

Telling him that his stay in Paris was so short that he saw no point in presenting his letters of introduction to the medical profession; mentioning that he visited Gustave and Adolphe d'Eichthal but found them travelling in Germany; reporting that he is having some "caricatures of consequence made during the Revolution" sent to him; writing that the journey from Paris to Geneva was "monotonous": "for my own part I took little else in hand but reading [James] Boswell's Life of [Samuel] Johnson"; noting that they heard "that there is a quarantine of a fortnight upon each of the roads from Northern Italy to Rome & Naples, and that the road by Marseilles alone is free and open"; informing him that he has one patient he attends daily; adding that he thinks "there will be a greater number of English & Americans at Rome this next winter than [he] had anticipated, and therefore more chance of occupation"; promising to write from Rome.