BIB_ID
80560
Accession number
MA 1080.15
Creator
Aitken, Jean Carlyle, 1810-1888.
Display Date
ca. 1832?
Credit line
Purchased, 1929.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Thomas Carlyle Esqr. / Craigenputtock / Dumfries." Also marked "Care of Mr. Shaw."
Dated "Tuesday night late."
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
With seal.
Dated "Tuesday night late."
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
With seal.
Provenance
Purchased from E.D. North, 1929.
Summary
Hinting at her intended marriage; reminding him of advice he gave her in a letter last year to "convince [her] own sober senses that [she] was doing a thing which [she] conceived to be right"; explaining that she "had not courage to tell [him] by letter what [she] meant to tell [him] in words"; hoping that he and his wife will visit them soon; adding that their "mother is in her usual health" and "daily in quest of letters from Jack [J.A. Carlyle] & [Thomas] but without effect."
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