1. Mill had returned the MS a few days before, saying: “It is a glorious piece of work—& will be a blessed gospel to many, if
they read it & lay it to heart.” After some suggestions for changes he went on: “I should be very averse to disturb any other
arrangement you may have made, or may wish to make; but it would delight me much to let this be the last dying speech of a
Radical Review. I do not think a radical review ought to die without saying all this—& no one else could say it half as well. Any number of copies of it might be printed in pamphlet
form from the same types” (MS: NLS 618.98A; pbd: Mineka 13:414).
2. Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–72), Italian patriot and revolutionary. He had founded the association of Young Italy in 1831 to promote a united republic, went into exile, and came to London in Jan. 1837. He tried to live by writing, met Mill, and is said to have met TC as early as Nov. 1837 (M. C. W. Wicks, The Italian Exiles in London, 1816–1848 [Manchester, 1937] 190), apparently through John Taylor (see Reminiscences 75). Mazzini's article on The French Revolution appeared in the Monthly Chronicle 5 (Jan. 1840): 71–84. During 1840 they met more frequently, and it was the Carlyles who were to persuade him to take lodgings nearby, in the King's Rd., Chelsea.
The friendship grew, particularly between JWC and Mazzini, in spite of TC's aversion to his revolutionary politics. TC was
to write in his Journal, 17 May 1849 (Froude, Carlyle 3:454), when Mazzini was besieged in Rome: “Mazzini came much about us here for many years, patronised by my wife; to me
very wearisome, with his incoherent Jacobitisms, George-Sandisms, in spite of all my love and regard for him; a beautiful
little man, full of sensibilities, of melodies, of clear intelligence, and noble virtues. … True as steel, the word the thought
of him pure and limpid as water. …” TC also writes in the Reminiscences: “We soon tired of one another Mazzini and I; and he fell mainly to her share,” and in the Journal on their parting in 1871, “Mazzini is the most pious living man I now know” (75).
3. Angelo Usiglio, who had been in exile with Mazzini, and who accompanied him and stayed with him when he first came to London.
