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January-October 1859

The Collected Letters, Volume 35

JWC TO WALTER MANTELL ; 6 October 1859; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18591006-JWC-WMAN-01; CL 35: 225

JWC TO WALTER MANTELL

5 Cheyne Row Chelsea / Thursday [6 October 1859]

Dear Mr Mantell

In a novel it would have been an awful blunder “entailing” the most “harrowing” consequences; but in real Life, it was quite right and kind, to forward the letter without delay to my legitimate address. It is from Mrs Hawkes 1 the letter, and she didn't know my whereabout. “George Cooke”2 has a right to this explanation 3

Pray do come! we should be sorry to not shake hands with you again. And for me, as one individual; I feel as if I couldn't like you enough and be sorry enough at your going,4 in amends for the almost detestation I had conceived against you from hearing you spoken of in season and out of season as a good deal higher than the angels!5 I have such a horror of angels—moi!

Yours sincerely

Jane Welsh Carlyle 6

Sourcenote

JWC-WM [WMAN], [6 Oct.]. MS: Alexander Turnbull Lib., Wellington, N.Z. Pbd: Howe 168 inc.

Footnotes

1. Emilie Hawkes.

2. The quotation marks are presumably because his full name was John George Cooke.

3. Mantell had visited the Carlyles in early Aug. when they were at Humbie; see TC to JAC, 8 July [Aug.]. Possibly Emilie Hawkes, knowing that the Carlyles had left Fife but not knowing their present address, had written to JWC c/o Mantell and he had given the letter to Cooke to deliver.

4. Mantell left for New Zealand during Oct.

5. By Geraldine Jewsbury; see JWC to JGCO, 2 Sept.

6. TC wrote JWC a check, 5 Oct.: “to Jane (for House &c) / £80..0..0”) (TC's checkbook; MS: NLS 20753). This included £10, the first installment for JWC from the Craigenputtoch wood sale; see TC to JAC, 4 May.

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