BIB_ID
377166
Accession number
MA 1080.31
Creator
Carlyle, John Aitken, 1801-1879.
Display Date
1841 Aug. 31.
Credit line
Purchased, 1929.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope is addressed to "Thomas Carlyle Esq. / care of T. Spedding Esq. / Greta Bank / Keswick."
Envelope with postmark, postage stamp, and seal.
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
Envelope with postmark, postage stamp, and seal.
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
Provenance
Purchased from E.D. North, 1929.
Summary
Telling him that he sent their mother a "pamphlet on the Corn Laws"; expressing his concern about their mother's poor health; hoping that he enjoys Cumberland and has agreeable weather; informing that he shall "most likely conclude [his] Quixote in ten days"; adding that Ralph Waldo "Emerson's essays have not yet come owing to the mismanagement of the bookseller here"; remarking that "poor [James] Fraser seems in a most hopeless state," but he "seems to have got real benefit from Willis' attendance as far as palliation goes."
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