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1841

The Collected Letters, Volume 13

TC TO HENRIETTA MARIA STANLEY ; 12 February 1841; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18410212-TC-HMS-01; CL 13: 32-33

TC TO HENRIETTA MARIA STANLEY

Chelsea, 12 feby 1841—

Dear Mrs Stanley,

Your Note never got into my hands till last night about 11 o'clock. I had been two days on a Special Jury; judging, till near dead, about Patent India-Rubber wool-cards! Stewed, choked, exasperated with the Babylonish jargon,—till I was like to rise in my Box, and address to the assembled multitude, bigwigs and all, a few words of Scotch!1

Besides I am printing two Books, an old, and a new one of Hero-Lectures; I am up to the throat in Proofsheets.

Tomorrow I will call for you.

Yours with hero-worship,

T. Carlyle—

Sourcenote

TC-HMS, 12 Feb. MS: Strouse. Hitherto unpbd. Henrietta Maria Stanley (1807–95; ODNB), wife of the liberal politician Edward John Stanley (1802–69; ODNB); see TC to JAC, 27 Feb. 1840.

Footnotes

1. TC had been called to serve in the court of common pleas, 10–11 Feb., before Lord Chief Justice Tindal, in the case of Walton v. Potter (deferred from 7 Dec. 1840) for an infringement of a patent on improved cards for carding various materials. The trial lasted till 8:00 P.M., Thurs., 11 Feb.; the verdict was given for Walton at 9:20 P.M. For TC's description of what happened when the jury withdrew, see TC to MAC, 18 Feb., and JWC to JOST, [ca. 9 March].

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SUBJECT / RECIPIENT INDICES

	Subject terms: Heroes (Heroes and Hero-Worship) > Preparation and Publication Jury service > TC's Feb. 1841 Stanley Edward John (1802–69) Stanley Henrietta Maria Lady
	Recipient terms: Stanley Henrietta Maria Lady