Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/839
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lor 854—continued. obstinacy, and with nothing but the old success: it is yet quite inapparent to me how I am ever to reduce the extant histories of Fr. the Great to a human condition, it as if the poor man lay for me diffused and dissolved in a century of mere froth, falsity and inanity, the vague dishonest babble of which, and indeed most of its works and words, are from of old contemptible and detestable to me. Fr’s century did nothing that I can completely approve of and rejoice in, except cut its own throat, and so end its dis- honest nonsenses, in the French Revolution. (8) (15) Fourteen A. L.s. Chelsea, 20 Oct., 1854, 2 pp., 26 Oct., 2 pp., 10 Nov., 1 p., 15 Nov. 1 p., 28 Nov., 2 pp., 29 Nov., 2 pp., 5 Jan., 1853, 1 p., 22 Jan., 2 pp., 2 Feb., 1 p. 4to, 3 Feb. I p. and enclosed slip, 8 Feb., 1 p., 16 Feb., 2 pp. 4to, 28 March, 1 p. 4to, 5 Apr., 4 pp., and two other Papers in Carlyle’s handwriting ; admission of J oseph Neuberg to work in the State Paper Office, Carlyle’s meeting with the Prince Consort (10 Nov.) and progress of the History of Frederick the Great : I have. been at Windsor since I saw you; found many curious Prints, Portraits and miniatures, which will be worth further investigation; had even a brief interview with His Royal Hss. the Consort of our illustrious sovereign which went of without damage ! (16) (16) Five A. L.s. Chelsea, 8 May, 18565, hi pips 19vune, 3 pp., 22 June, 2 pp., 14 July, 1 p. 4to, 28 July, » pp. 4to, and two other Papers in Carlyle’s handwriting ; on 27th Feb., 1855 Francis de Haes Janvier of Philadelphia wrote to Carlyle, whose works had been extensively pirated in America, asking for a letter from him on the subject. of International Copyright for publication in Graham’s Maga- zine ; Janvier’s original Letter is included in this lot, with a Draft of Carlyle’s Reply (2 pp. 4to) on the fly-leaf, in the latter’s handwriting (7) (17) A. L. s. 2 pp., Chelsea, 7 Aug., 1856, mentioning his intention to visit Edward Fitzgerald : I myself go off tomorrow for the Suffolk Court, to FitzGerald’s whom you have seen; who asserts the singular solitude, airiness of his quarters; who at least commands some sort of sea-bathing with immunity from nocturnal noises; and is one of the most courteous delicate and friendly souls now breathing’... (18) Hight A. L. s. Chelsea, 25 Aug., 1855, 4 pp., 27 Aug., 3 pp.; Addiscombe Farm? Croydon, 5 Sept., 4 full pp. 4to, 12 Sept., 4 pp., 19 Sept., 2 pp., and Ohelsea, 27 Sept., 2 pp. Ato, 10 Oct., 4 pp. 4to, 18 Oct., 2 pp. 4to: 5 Sept. “I have free scope for silence, as ever man had; and literally converse with nobody except the little Horse, and my own thoughts if I have any, and my Own sensations which I am sure to have. The lanes and old country roads, old as Hengist many of them, are very pretty, the heaths stil] green as emerald; a country of corn and grass and wood, .. . Croydon was once a place for Charcoal, the ‘ Colliers of Croydon’ a phrase in the old BiOKe Ve (8)
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