TC-RMM, [1 March]. MS: Trinity. Hitherto unpbd. Dated by the visit the next evening of Elizabeth Rigby, who wrote in her diary, 3 March: “To the Carlyles' in the evening [2 March]—Mr. Sterling there, and some others” (Journals and Correspondence [1895] 1:118).

1. Goddess of the moon and the hunt and protectress of women.

2. Elizabeth Rigby wrote in her diary: “Carlyle perfect in his way; that is, a wayward genius, now kindly, now fretful: the best laugh I ever heard, and, I doubt not, a tear in season. He has the thinnest possible surface over his mind; you can get through it at once. Talked of Oliver Cromwell, … of Fanny Burney, … of Bettina [von Arnim], of Marie Antoinette … Never felt myself in more thoroughly intellectual society—such great knowledge, and such equal originality. Mrs. Carlyle interested me: she is lively and clever, and evidently very happy” (1:118–19).