BIB_ID
81530
Accession number
MA 1080.4
Creator
Carlyle, Alexander, 1797-1876.
Display Date
1818 Nov. 14.
Credit line
Purchased, 1929.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Thomas Carlyle / Mrs. Skeens Kirkwind / Kirkcaldy."
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
With an autograph note signed from Carlyle's mother, Margaret Aitken Carlyle, on p. [3]. She writes she is happy to hear of his "heroic spirit" and mentions a box she has sent to him.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
With an autograph note signed from Carlyle's mother, Margaret Aitken Carlyle, on p. [3]. She writes she is happy to hear of his "heroic spirit" and mentions a box she has sent to him.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased from E.D. North, 1929.
Summary
Commenting on Carlyle's decision to "[give] up the school at last" and applauding his "resolution to be content in whatever situation [he] may happen to be placed in"; giving details of their harvest at home: "it is hardly so much bulk as we expected once, but it yields well and is good in quality"; discussing the prices they are getting for their potatoes, barley, and corn; giving an account of his reading in English history, and noting that he thinks Henry VIII has "the worst character" of "all the kings [he has] read of"; apologizing for the "bad" ink used to write the letter.
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