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1838

The Collected Letters, Volume 10

TC TO JANE WILSON ; 24 January 1838; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18380124-TC-JWI-01; CL 10: 10-11

TC TO JANE WILSON

[24 January 1838]

My dear Miss Wilson,

I will come on Saturday. Before that time I hope to give you a copy of Walter Scott;—which you must not stick in the middle of, as you have done in poor De La Martine!1

I am very sickly, cold, dispirited; and go nowhither, except moping about, wrapt in my cloak and in my own reflexions, or I should have been to see you ere now.

Believe me always, / Faithfully yours / T. Carlyle

Chelsea, Wednesday.

Sourcenote

TC-JW [JWI], [24 Jan.]. MS: Whicker Collection, Montana State Univ. Hitherto unpbd. Dated by the publication of “Sir Walter Scott” in London and Westminster Review, Jan., of which TC received a copy on Sat., 27 Jan.; see TC to JAC, 1 Feb. Jane Wilson (1790–1890) lived with her brother Thomas (d. 1872); they had been friends of the Carlyles since 1835; see 8:151.

Footnotes

1. For the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), see 5:9; the work is unidentified but possibly is Jocelyn (Paris, 1836).

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SUBJECT / RECIPIENT INDICES

	Subject terms: CARLYLE THOMAS > Health ill-health Lamartine Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de WILSON Jane (Wilsons) WILSON Thomas
	Recipient terms: Wilson Jane