Part 26 - Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald

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O./4.54/26

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Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald

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  • 29 Jul. 1844 (Creation)

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Chelsea. - Thanks Fitzgerald for the plan of Winceby [site of a battle, 11 Oct. 1643] and the details of findings there, sent to Fitzgerald by Elizabeth Charlesworth. 'You will therefore congratulate Miss Charleston; who really is a famous girl,—and ought to be courted, I should say, by any man at liberty for such enterprises...'

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      Originally tipped into O.4.54, now loose inside.

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      Perhaps originally enclosing the note in Thomas Carlyle's hand headed 'Election of Knights of the Shire (what we now call County Members) for Suffolk; at Ipswich, on the 21st, 22d & 23d of October, 1640', now O.4.24/28. A transcription of the note is affixed to that of this letter on Carlyle Letters Online (CLO).

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      Published in Ryals, et al. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Duke-Edinburgh ed., Duke University Press, 1970-. Transcriptions available online at Carlyle Letters Online (CLO): https://carlyleletters.dukeupress.edu/

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