TC-HW [HWE], [1 or 8 Feb.]. MS: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd, University of Keele. Hitherto unpbd. Dated with reference to TC to JW [JWI], [?3 Feb.] where Carlyle is similarly “beset … with Printers and Proofsheets” which have “overlaid” his thoughts on lecturing, and Jane is “still very sickly … in this bitter North-East weather.” By the time of TC to JAC, 17 Feb., Carlyle was more relaxed, Jane was “nearly thro' again,” and the weather had improved.

1. Possibly Caedmon'sMetrical Paraphrase of Parts of the Holy Scriptures, in Anglo Saxon, ed. Benjamin Thorpe (London, 1832).

2. Possibly James Cowles Prichard, The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations proved by a Comparison of their dialects with Sanscrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic languages (Oxford, 1831).

3. Wedgwood and Carlyle had obviously discussed his future lecture programme. In the first lecture, 1 May, Carlyle was to mention Ulfilas (see 5:105), bishop of the Goths and translator of the Gospels into Gothic. Hensleigh lent him an edition, possibly Ulfilas Gothische Bibelübersetzung. … , 3 pt. (Weissenfels, 1805), which Carlyle used in his first lecture, as Fanny Wedgwood noted in her letter to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, 3 May: “unluckily it was the day H. went to Woolwich so he lost seeing Carlisle [sic] flourishing his Ulfilas that H. had lent him wch was one great topic of his lecture.” Carlyle's course of lectures (see Froude, Carlyle, III, 98–99) followed the outline of his History of German Literature; see 5:105–7.