BIB_ID
81458
Accession number
MA 1081.2
Creator
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 1801-1866.
Display Date
[1837 Aug. 3].
Credit line
Purchased, 1929.
Description
1 item (10 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "T. Carlyle Esqr. / Scotsbrig / Ecclefechan / N.B."
Date is from printed version of the letter.
Part of a collection of four letters from Jane Welsh Carlyle to her husband, Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1081 for more details.
With seal.
Date is from printed version of the letter.
Part of a collection of four letters from Jane Welsh Carlyle to her husband, Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1081 for more details.
With seal.
Provenance
Purchased from E.D. North, 1929.
Summary
Expressing her reservations about the journey on which she is about to embark; giving details of their proposed trip around England; commenting on [William Makepeace] Thackeray's article on Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution and alluding to other reviews of the book; mentioning letters for him from [Godefroy] Cavaignac and John Sterling; reporting that she just went to church and heard Dr. [Thomas] Chalmers preach; telling him that her "mother set off the instant her teeth were rectified" and observing, "I have had a letter from her today, from Liverpool, worded just as if we had been spending the last three months as -- we ought to have done. After so signal a failure I shall never more flatter myself with the notion of being able to live reasonably beside her"; announcing her intention to cut short her journey: "if my anxiety becomes painful or my ennui great; I will ... come home [by?] some benevolent mail-coach. Or if you should wish to come back[,] how much more read[i]ly will I fly home in that case!"; promising to right when she is settled anywhere so he will know where to address her.
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