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Reference code
O./4.54/45
Title
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald
Date(s)
- 23 Aug. 1855 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet.
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Chelsea. - Sends the proposed inscription for the stone to be erected at Naseby; FitzGerald is welcome to make any changes he wishes; the hardest thing will be to find out the date of FitzGerald's excavations there; suggestions as to the nature of the monument. Cannot promise to go with FitzGerald; cannot sleep since he left Suffolk; sends best wishes to people there.
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Tipped into O.4.54.
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Originally enclosing O.4.54/45, the text of the proposed inscription. O.4.54/46 is another version.
Publication note
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/