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The Collected Letters, Volume 6

TC TO HENRY INGLIS; 11 April 1833; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18330411-TC-HI-01; CL 6:368.

TC TO HENRY INGLIS

4. King Street, Thursday [11 April 1833]

My Dear Sir,

I find now that I am not engaged for tonight anywhere; and that my Wife has as it were lent me out for tomorrow evening (and I believe you too, if you do not refuse) to a Lecture of Phrenologist Combe's 1 on Female Education,—price only sixpence.

The two questions therefore arise: Can you receive me tonight at half past seven; and come yourself tomorrow at six? Answer the first in the affirmative, and we can settle the second at meeting. A verbal Yes will do. I should like very well to see your friend Colquhoun 2 also if you will take him and can get him.

Ever faithfully, /

T. Carlyle.

Sourcenote

TC-HI, [11 April]. Addr: 2. Henderson Row. MS: NLS, 1796.42. Hitherto unpbd. For dating, see footnote 1.

Footnotes

1. For George Combe, see TC to JAC, 16 April 1828. He had begun a series of lectures in Nov. 1832, resulting in the formation of an Edinburgh Philosophical Association, at the end of which came three on education, the last of which was on female education, given on the evening of Friday, 12 April, and repeated on Saturday afternoon.

2. Probably John Campbell Colquhoun (1785–1854), friend of Sir William Hamilton and Sir David Brewster. He was the author of An History of Magic, Witchcraft, and Animal Magnetism (London, 1851).

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	Subject terms: Brewster Dr. David Colquhoun John C. Combe George Edinburgh Philosophical Association HAMILTON Sir William (1788–1856)