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January-October 1859

The Collected Letters, Volume 35

TC TO JOSEPH NEUBERG ; 28 February 1859; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18590228-TC-JN-01; CL 35: 45-46

TC TO JOSEPH NEUBERG

Chelsea, 28 feby, 1859—

Dear Neuberg,—I am shoving rubbish aside. Here is a kind of Index to Fassn knocking about; I think you have Fassmann;1 please stick this in, with a crumb of wafer, it will at least be out of the way.

The other Patch is about Seyfart;2 was intended, I suppose, for Wm's & Norgate 3 3 months ago: but as they have made so little of Adelung4 &c, it is not worth sending thither now. I wish, however, you wd immediately, either there or somewhere better, take some punctual steps on the matter: it wd really be a great acquisition to me, that missing volume of Seyfart.5 Pray stir up somebody to try earnestly for that volume;—any other old ruinous Copy of Seyfart wd have a chance to contain it: beyond doubt, the thing might be got in the Antiquar shops by a diligt man!

Yours always /

T. Carlyle

Sourcenote

TC-JN, 28 Feb. Addr: 25. Oakley Villas, Adelaide Road / Haverstock Hill. PM: London, 28 Feb. 1859. MS: NLS 552.188. Hitherto unpbd.

Footnotes

1. David Fassmann (1683–1744), German historian. TC may be referring to either Des glorwürdigsten Fürsten und Herrn, Friedrich Augusti des Grossen, Leben und Helden-Thaten, so letzthin in historischer Ordnung beschrieben von D. F. Nunmehro erläutert durch J. G. H. (Frankfurt, 1734) or Leben und Thaten des Königs von Preussen, Friederici Wilhelmi (Hamburg, 1735); TC's copies: HCC.

2. Johann Friedrich Seyfart, Lebens- und Regierungs-Geschichte Friedrichs des andern Königs in Preussen (Leipzig, 1784–88). “A work of immense research; wd have been invaluable as a Dictionary; but in its present state, as a ‘Book,' shot together into blind masses, witht even an Index, is very surprising!” (TC's copy: HCC).

3. Williams & Norgate, booksellers, 14 Henrietta St., Covent Garden; see TC to JN, 1 May 1857.

4. Johann Christoph Adelung, Pragmatische Staatsgeschichte Europens von dem Ableben Kaiser Carls 6 an bis auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten, 9 vols. (Gotha, 1762–67). TC had asked Neuberg to look into buying a copy in Oct. 1858; see TC to JN, 28 Oct. 1858. TC received vols. 1–8 in May; see TC to JN, 26 May; he wrote about it: “Perhaps the only copy in England, though not a rare book. I had a 9th vol., but it consisted only of Documents, State-papers &c., & was of no use. Herr Tauchnitz of Leipzig, who searched out for me that 9th vol., asserted confidently that no other had ever been published” (TC's copy: HCC). See also TC to JN, 20 Oct. 1855.

5. TC needed vol. 1; see TC to WAN, 6 June.

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