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O./4.55/ff. 3-4
Title
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald
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- 6 Feb. 1847 (Creation)
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2 single sheets.
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Bay House, Alverstoke, Hants. - Encloses letter from a 'strange rusty old Yarmouth gentleman [William Squire]' about 'Civil-war matters', who has ' curious Papers, which ought to be inquired into!'; since Squire is in FitzGerald's district, asks him to 'bite at the bait and elucidate him a little'
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curious
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Tipped into O.4.55 between pp. 42 and 43.
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Carlyle's letters to FitzGerald are 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/