Deel f. 5 - Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald

1 single sheet.

Chelsea. - Encloses another message from 'our rusty Yarmouth friend [William Squire]'; the note which FitzGerald sent him is about the wrong man, as 'his Squire is evidently not the Unitarian Squire,—nor indeed any Squire that belongs to our century, or knows what o’clock it has now become!'. Wishes 'some rational eye could get upon these old Papers of his, and fairly examine them'; Carlyle himself must 'fight rather shy,—and restrict myself to ascertaining whether there are any more Oliver [Cromwell] Letters'; would obviously be very happy to see them if there are.

Tipped into O.4.55 between pp. 42 and 43.

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/