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Credit: Sales catalogue 601: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![707 GARLYLE (THOMAS, 1795-1881). Essayist and Historian. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO REV. THOMAS MURRAY. 4 pp., 4to. Kinnaird House, 17th June, 1823. £31 10s . . . You want to be informed how I spend my time here, and what novelties I have discovered in the country of the Celts. As to my time, it passes in the most jocund and unprofitable manner you can figure. I have no professional labour to encounter that deserves being named. I am excellently lodged, and experience nothing but suitable treatment in all points. There are plenty of books, too, and paper and geese; there are mountains of mica-slate, and woods and green pastures and clear waters and azure skies to look at: I read, or write and burn, at rare intervals; I go scampering about on horseback; or lie down by the grassy slopes of the Tay, and Jook at Schiehallion and Bengloe with their caps of snow, and all the ragged monsters that keep watch around them, since the creation never stirring from their post; I dream all kinds of empyrean dreams, and live as idly as if I were a considerable proprietor of land. Such work, of pans will never do at the long run; and pity that it will not, for it passes very smoothly. . . “* What writing, or what studying? How is it with the Earl of Stair, and with the world in general? Except for a Dumfries Courier and a daily Times, I might as well be living in the fifth belt of Jupiter.’’ 708 GARLYLE (THOMAS). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO FITZGERALD. 4 pp., 8vo. Chelsea, 18th October, 1856. £7 10s Referring to Fitzgerald’s proposed marriage to the daughter of Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet; also concerning his (Carlyle’s) visit to Scotland, and mentioning his work on ‘‘ Frederick the Great.’’ i. I went to the Highlands some three weeks after writing to you; and was tattered all to pieces by the crowded inns, screaming railways, midnight coaches, rains, storms, donothingisms and confusions of that surprising country. For a fortnight past, I am here, sunk overhead in Brandenburg, feeling obliged to do the Book or go to Bedlam. My head feels as if half full of molten lead (molten, only witht. heat); and is capable of nothing; but I will make it work! ”’ Etc. 709 CARLYLE (THOMAS). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO A LADY. appl MSvole NID: £2 10s ait. Mr. Mill has personally nothing to do with paying the Review; but it Tis] even possible he might exert himself in consequence of such an appeal; and so after a good deal of confused negociation, perhaps in a week hence, the money as a favour might be advanced. | ‘‘ My share in all this would be quite easy and I should be very blameable if I were not ready at any time to do twenty times as much for Mr. Hunt. But on this occasion my decision is that for his sake, it must be declined.’’ Ete. 710 ** CARMEN SYLVA,”? QUEEN ELIZABETH OF ROUMANIA (born 1843). Poet. TWO AUTCGRAPH POEMS. One in German, entitled ‘‘ Der Geigenmacher’’ (The Violin Maker), consisting of 5 verses of 4 lines each, on I page, 4to, 27th December, 1887, and on the reverse an autograph translation into German from a poem by Sully Prudhomme, ‘“‘ Der Verlorene Schrei ”’ (The Lost Cry), some 16 lines, on I page, 4to. 23rd December, 1887. Together, 2 pp., 4to. £2 2s](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31643668_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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