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January-September 1856

The Collected Letters, Volume 31

TC TO J. LLEWELYN DAVIES ; 9 May 1856; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18560509-TC-JLD-01; CL 31: 88

TC TO J. LLEWELYN DAVIES

CHELSEA, 9 May 1856.

DEAR SIR,

Thanks for your kind remembrance of me. I have looked over your Pamphlet,1—with a just satisfaction at least in the chivalrous spirit with which you conduct yourself in battle. Alas, there is much confusion on all hands of us; many seeking (or what they call seeking), few finding: nevertheless, it is true as written, “He that seeketh shall find!”2

I have forwarded your Book to a quarter where it will be prized, and may deserve to be made known.

Believe me, / Yours sincerely,

T. CARLYLE.

Sourcenote

TC-JLD, 9 May. Pbd: From a Victorian Post-bag, ed. C. Llewelyn Davies (1926) 14. John Llewelyn Davies (1826–1916; DNB; see 28:376). Davies is noted as fellow of Trinity Coll., Cambridge, and rector of St. Mark's, Whitechapel, in the ad. for the pamphlet, Times, 2 May. He became rector of Christ Church, Marylebone, 1856–89.

Footnotes

1. St. Paul and Modern Thought: Remarks on some of the Views advanced in Professor Jowett's Commentary on St. John (Cambridge, 1856), in which Davies attacks Benjamin Jowett's (1817–93; DNB) The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians, Romans (1855). Davies refers to TC several times, supporting his view that “the deadliest of all heresies” is “that evil is to be tolerated” (31).

2. Cf. Matt. 7:8, Luke 11:10.

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	Subject terms: Christ Church Marylebone DAVIES John Llewelyn Jowett Prof. Benjamin St. Mark's TIMES Trinity Coll. Cambridge
	Recipient terms: Davies John Llewelyn