Deel 41 - Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald

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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'

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/