Deel 34 - Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald

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Chelsea. - 'You will do me a real favour if you can, thro’ your Friend Browne or any other eligible channel, procure me a winter requiem for this horse of mine. I hope to have finished my affairs here in about a fortnight; am off then towards Scotland:—and should be very glad to annihilate the Horse till the end of February next...'; it is a good horse, but Carlyle will have no need of it until then.

'Cromwell’s own things are now all out of my hands,—the last this very day: but there is a conclusion to do, an Index &c &c: there is still certainly a fortnight’s work in the business. You will get the Book to try your hand upon in October (so the Booksellers arrange)'

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/