Autograph Letter Signed from Thomas Carlyle to H. Grant, September 1935
Scope and Contents
Autograph Letter Signed from Thomas Carlyle, Regent Street, to H. Grant, Gray's Inn, Friday, dated in another hand September 1835.
The letter reads:
"I was this far on my road to the J. H. [?] but find now it will not do.
Unluckily we are all engaged tonight. I should like much to see Garnier again (whom I did not suspect to be in town at present), could he not contrive to call on me, any day - before Sunday, which indeed I grieve to see is but one solitary day!
I still hope to see you. It is possible I may not go till Monday, by what conveyance, or even thro' which of the three Elements (that of Fire is excluded) I may go is as uncertain as ever. Provably the old story of Patent Safety Fast Coach will be the thing after all; torment or next to that; but then brief torment.
I write with the back of a pen, and in much haste .. regards to Mill, and hope still of seeing him.
Yours ever truly,
T Carlyle"
Dates
- Creation: September 1935
Creator
- Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (historian, essayist and philosopher) (Author, Person)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
2 sides 8vo., with original integral autograph address leaf and seal.
Conditions Governing Access
Open. Please contact the repository in advance.
Extent
1 letter
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased in November 2019. Accession no SC-Acc-2020-0027.
Physical Description
2 sides 8vo., with original integral autograph address leaf and seal.
Processing Information
Catalogued by Aline Brodin in August 2020.
Creator
- Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (historian, essayist and philosopher) (Author, Person)
Subject
- Grant, H, fl 1935 (acquaintance of Thomas Carlyle) (Recipient, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk