Deel 30 - Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald

1 folded sheet.

Chelsea. - 'I have expressly named you and the Lady Olivia to His Grace [the Duke of Manchester], as the benevolent persons who, under Providence and him, are to get me a Copy of that Paper or Letter of Oliver’s, without farther travel or trouble of mine!' A note at the top of the letter explains that this is 'Lady Olivia Sparrow; Aunt, I think, to the then Duke of Manchester' [she was in fact his grandmother]. The friend of FitzGerald's at Kimbolton referred to by Carlyle is William Airy, the Duke's domestic chaplain.

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/