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1841

The Collected Letters, Volume 13

TC TO AN UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT ; 22 January 1841; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18410122-TC-UC-01; CL 13: 23-24

TC TO AN UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT

5. Cheyne Row, Chelsea / 22 jany, 1841—

My dear Sir,

You are very kind to remember me still, and ask me to your house and hearth. Alas, I am such a miserable dyspeptic excitable creature, I can dine nowhere with impunity;—and at this time so especially busy and atrabiliar, I am forced to decline going out altogether.

You must come and see me yourself again, some quiet evening, with nothing but tea for excitement!

I have not seen Robertson either, at all, since that last day of the “Heroes.”1 Somebody told me he had been to Scotland, and was back again.— I have got a Report of those Hero-Lectures, and am about printing it in these weeks. If you ever see Mr Hone, say I kindly remember him.

Yours very truly /

T. Carlyle—

Sourcenote

TC-UC, 22 Jan. MS: Yale. Hitherto unpbd. The correspondent, as a friend of William Hone (1780–1842; ODNB), the bookseller (see TC to JBW, 19 May 1824) who had attended TC's last lecture, is presumably the friend “acquainted with Carlyle” who took Hone to it and then introduced him to TC, who “was very glad to see him” (Thomas Hughes, Memoir of Daniel Macmillan [1882] 94). Hone himself, in a letter of thanks to TC for the ticket to the lectures, wondered whether TC had thought of him because “my friend Robert Fletcher mentioned me to you as being a Hero-worshipper” (see TC to AC, 27 April 1840). So Fletcher may be the addressee of this letter. A Rev. Robert Fletcher wrote Hone's obituary for the Nonconformist, 1842.

Footnotes

1. John Robertson (1811–75), journalist; see TC to JSM, 30 Oct. 1837, and TC to JAC, 27 July 1838. The last lecture had been on 22 May 1840.

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SUBJECT / RECIPIENT INDICES

	Subject terms: CARLYLE Thomas > Dinners dislike of and attendance at Fletcher Rev. Robert Heroes (Heroes and Hero-Worship) Hone William Robertson John
	Recipient terms: Unidentified Correspondent