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- 14 Sept. 1847 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet.
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Scotsbrig, Ecclefechan. - Spedding has been unwell, 'even dangerously so', but is now out of danger; has not heard directly from him, but from 'Marshall of Leeds, his neighbour in the North Country, and a sure hand'. Has been travelling in Derbyshire, Airedale, and Manchester before coming to Scotland; has seen the grave of Richard Arkwright and 'the earliest Cotton-Mill in the world'; could not find Brindley's baptismal register and birthplace, 'no man had ever heard of Brindley, his place knew him not'. At Manchester saw 'Ex-Quaker Bright the Member, and Bamford the Radical'
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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)
- Spedding, James (1808-1881), literary editor and biographer (Subject)
- Marshall, James Garth (1802-1873), politician (Subject)
- Arkwright, Sir Richard (1732-1792), knight, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer (Subject)
- Brindley, James (1716-1772), civil engineer (Subject)
- Bright, John (1811–1889), politician (Subject)
- Bamford, Samuel (1788-1872), radical reformer and writer (Subject)