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O./4.54/43
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Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald
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- 17 Dec. 1850 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet.
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Chelsea. - Travels over the summer; saw the Tennysons and Speddings; Mrs Alfred is a very nice creature, cheerful, good-mannered, intelligent, sincere-looking': 'James Spedding was as much the philosopher as ever, and as fond of tobacco: Tom I found labouring under some misgivings as to certain Pamphlets, and still obstinately disposed to hope that the world wd mend itself; otherwise well and happy'.
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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)
- Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892), 1st Baron Tennyson, poet (Subject)
- Tennyson, Emily Sarah (1813-1896), secretary and manager for her husband, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson (Subject)
- Spedding, James (1808-1881), literary editor and biographer (Subject)
- Spedding, Thomas Story (1800-1870), barrister and landowner (Subject)