Autograph letter signed by Thomas Carlyle to an unnamed correspondent. Chelsea, 9 January 1845. In it, Carlyle thanks them "for your Copies and List - if you went to the Museum today you would find that I had been at the Ayscough ... yesterday. I got the letter (first letter) to the Mayor of Waterford copied from it, but as yet nothing more. If you have been so obliging as to copy me anything more from that or other quarters, could you send me word about it (the briefest word) tomorrow night, that so on Monday or the following days there may be no doing of the same thing twice. I will still thank you for all your Annotations from Cary or otherwise for the Second volume, which will not go to Press for some time yet ..."

This is possibly written while he was working on his 1845 work: The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, which presented a positive image of Cromwell.