TC TO RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES ; 20 May 1838; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18380520-TC-RMM-01; CL 10: 81-82
TC TO RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES
Chelsea, 20th May [1838]—
My dear Sir,
I should like greatly to come to you on Tuesday morning; but I am in so contemptible a state of health (as you may see in the Portman-Square Cockpit yonder),1 that I dare promise nothing. Sometimes I awake at four in the morning, and breakfast as soon after that as possible!— What shall I say? Perhaps you will let me try to come and hope to come; and if I fail after all, will view me with the due pity and tolerance, knowing well enough how it must have been in that case? I will leave it so.
You ought to lend me a reading of your Book, since it is not for sale.2 I could do very well with it at present; and shall accordingly request that favour of you.
Believe me always / Your's faithfully /
T. Carlyle.
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