Autograph letter signed : "Mainhill" [Ecclefechan], to his brother, Thomas Carlyle, 1821 Nov. 18.

Record ID: 
81450
Accession number: 
MA 1080.8
Author: 
Carlyle, John Aitken, 1801-1879.
Credit: 
Purchased, 1929.
Description: 
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18.6 cm
Notes: 

Addressed to "Mr. Thomas Carlyle / Edinburgh."
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.

Summary: 

Reporting that a box has been "packed into [Sandy's] cart"; noting that they received Thomas's letters and "were all very glad to hear [he] had recovered from the fatigue of [his] journey"; thanking him for sending "the spectacles" and wondering if their mother's spectacles could be fitted with "similar glasses" to their father's spectacles.

Provenance: 
Purchased from E.D. North, 1929.