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O./4.54/36
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Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald
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- 19 Jan. 1846 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet.
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Chelsea. - Asks FitzGerald to look over 'Two Leaves [of proofs] on Naseby'; the new Cromwell letters and 'botherations' are 'really very distressing' to him as he has to find a way to incorporate them into his Cromwell book when he thought it was done with. Discussion of Cobden and Corn Law repeal. Asks whether Davy will know anything about Sir John Burgoyne, MP during the Long Parliament, and his son Roger.
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Tipped into O.4.54.
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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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- Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881), author, biographer, and historian (Subject)
- Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658), Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Subject)
- Cobden, Richard (1804-1865), manufacturer and politician (Subject)
- Davy, David Elisha (1789-1851), antiquary (Subject)
- Burgoyne, Sir John (c 1592-1657), 1st Baronet, politician (Subject)