TC-JN, 15 June. Addr: 25. Oakley Villas, Adelaide Road / Haverstock Hill. PM: London, 15 June 1859. MS: NLS 553.200. Hitherto unpbd.

1. Ordered in April from a catalogue sent by Magnus; see TC to JN, 13 April, and TC to JN, 25 April.

2. Possibly a reference to the story about a disturbance at Göttingen begun with the phrase “No road there”; see Thomas Hodgskin, Travels in the North of Germany (Edinburgh, 1820) 2:308.

3. Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715–59), Prussian poet and officer; see Works 18:85–86.

4. No closing quotation marks on MS. Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (1777–1811), Prussian poet, dramatist, and novelist; he shot Henriette Vogel (1773?—1811) and then himself in a mutual suicide pact.

5. Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766; see TC to JPE, 20 March 1830), scholar and critic; TC described him as being “a gigantic gentleman, Reigning King of German Literature for the time being” and “huge of stature” in 1757 (Works 17:254).

6. Probably Salomon Gessner (1730–88), sentimental Swiss poet, painter, etcher, and publisher; famous throughout the 1750s and 1760s. Presumably TC is using the Scots word “peeled” meaning equal in achievement (or girth).

7. Woolner wrote to Emily Tennyson, 15 June: “How I wish that grim old gentleman Carlyle would let me do his bust: what a nuisance it is that the men who are most worthy of being handed down visibly to posterity are the most hard to come at” (Woolner 175).