Deel 26 - Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald

1 folded sheet.

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...'

Originally tipped into O.4.54, now loose inside.

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).

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/