Part 27 - Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald

1 folded sheet.

Chelsea. - Has sent FitzGerald's name to the London Library, and he should hear from the Librarian as soon as a committee has admitted him as a member; 'You will find it a very real convenience, I do expect, to be admitted freely to such an extent of Book-pasturage...'

'You may depend upon it Dryasdust is highly gratified with the notice taken of him. Pray sound him, from the distance, and ascertain: I have still a great many Suffolk questions that I could ask him.— I am getting a little better with my poor Cromwell in these days; I really must have done with it, if only to save my own life...' A note at the top of the letter in FitzGerald's hand identifies 'Dryasdust' as ' D. E. Davy Esq: of Ufford, a polite handsome old Gentleman, who had collected over 80 folios of Suffolk History, which he finally bequeathed to the British Museum...'

Visit of Alfred Tennyson, who should have a state pension: ' A hundred and fifty to Alfred, I say; he is worth that sum to England! It should be done, and must.'

Tipped into O.4.54.

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/