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January-September 1845

The Collected Letters, Volume 19

TC TO DAVID LAING ; 5 May 1845; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18450505-TC-DL-01; CL 19: 67

TC TO DAVID LAING

Chelsea, London, 5 May / 1845—

My dear Sir,

Will you allow me to introduce to you Mr James Dodds, whom I have known for some years by Letters and Sight, as a young man of much talent, zeal, enthusiasm, good nature and honesty of heart;—who is at present occupied with some Cameronian or Covenanting matters,1 and naturally longs to be put in communication with you and your resources in regard to them. I think you will not grudge affording him what help is convenient for you; nor find it, now or afterwards, ill bestowed.

Thanks for your Notice of the old Pamphlet on Jenny Geddes;2 I got the fifth edition of Baker 3 at Oxford, found the passage there; and have now done with that matter.

With many kind regards

Yours always truly /

T. Carlyle

Sourcenote

TC-DL, 5 May. Addr: Signet Library / Edinr. / By Mr Dodds. MS: EUL. Hitherto unpbd.

Footnotes

1. James Dodds (1813–74; ODNB), solicitor, lecturer, and poet; see TC to JADO, 5 Feb. 1840. Cameronians were a Presbyterian sect, followers of Richard Cameron (1664–80). Covenanters were Scottish Presbyterians who subscribed to the National Covenant, 1638 (see TC to DL, 2 April 1841), drawn up against Charles I's innovations in worship; they also opposed Charles II's imposition of Episcopalian church govt., 1661–88, and many were persecuted. Dodds had begun a series of poems dealing with this period, Dec. 1844, pbd. in The Free Church Magazine, 1845–47, and Lowe's Edinburgh Magazine n.s., 1847–48, later collected as Lays of the Covenanters (Edinburgh, 1880).

2. Edinburgh's Joy (1661); see Works 6:97.

3. See TC to DL, 25 March.

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SUBJECT / RECIPIENT INDICES

	Subject terms: Baker Sir Richard Cameron Richard Cameronians Charles I King of Great Britain Charles II King of Great Britain Covenanters DODDS James (lawyer) Edinburgh's Joy Geddes Jenny
	Recipient terms: Laing David