BIB_ID
81450
Accession number
MA 1080.8
Creator
Carlyle, John Aitken, 1801-1879.
Display Date
1821 Nov. 18.
Credit line
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.
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
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.
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