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January-October 1859

The Collected Letters, Volume 35

TC TO HENRY LARKIN ; 8 February 1859; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18590208-TC-HL-01; CL 35: 26

TC TO HENRY LARKIN

[8 February 1859]

Dear Sir,—Could you call tomorrow at the Londn Library, and bring me Oeuvres de Voltaire vol. 39 1 (there are marks in whh I wish to see):—I will then give you some (abstruse enough) copying to do.2——In haste of hastes

T. Carlyle

Chelsea, Tuesday
(try this paper—no other to be had)

Sourcenote

TC-HL, [8 Feb.]. Addr: 3. St John's Villas / Highbury Vale. PM: London, 8 Feb. 1859. MS: Huntington Lib. Pbd: Larkin, BQR 68.

Footnotes

1. The London Lib. had Voltaire, Oeuvres Complètes (Paris, 17–20); see also TC to HG, 8 Feb. 1855.

2. Larkin noted that “in addition to map-making, my labours had gradually come to include the deciphering and copying-out of the more intricate and least intelligible bits of Carlyle's sometimes singularly intricate manuscript, as the following note will sufficiently testify” (BQR 68).

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