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July-December 1858

The Collected Letters, Volume 34

TC TO JOSEPH NEUBERG ; 24 December 1858; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18581224-TC-JN-01; CL 34: 253-254

TC TO JOSEPH NEUBERG

[24? December 1858]

Dear Neuberg,—Come tomorrow evg, if you can. And bring Preuss vol 7 [I?],1 if you can quite spare it, for it is occasionally wanted here.—I am extremely miserable; in the agonies of getting into work again, and so weak, so bothered, and my hand so out, that I absolutely cannot!2 There was never any task half as damnable as this I have now on my hands, or so like breaking my heart if I ever do get done with it! But I was a fool; & a man must drink as he has brewed.

Yours always truly /

T. Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle to Joseph Neuberg, [ 24? December 1858]

Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland

Sourcenote

TC-JN, [24? Dec.]. Addr: 25 Oakley Villas / Adelaide Road / Haverstock Hill. PM: 4 Dec. 1858. MS: NLS 552.179. Hitherto unpbd. 24 Dec. was a Friday; Neuberg usually visited on Sundays; the letter is dated from the postmark of 24 Dec. on the envelope mounted with the letter; if the envelope has been misattached, it is possible that the letter is dated earlier in Dec. on a Saturday (perhaps 12 or 19). The datings on the MS are not in TC's hand; see above.

Footnotes

1. See above. If TC has written “7,” then he probably refers to J. D. E. Preuss's edn. of Oeuvres de Frédéric le Grand, 31 vols. (Berlin 1846–57); if an incomplete “I,” then it may be Preuss's Friedrich der Grosse, eine Lebensgeschichte, 5 vols. (Berlin, 1832–34), frequently cited in Frederick.

2. TC had begun work again on vols. 3 and 4 of Frederick two months before; see TC to JCA, 24 Dec.

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