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THOMAS CARLYLE (1795-1881) & OTHERS
Autograph letter signed ("T. Carlyle") to Mr Owen, 2 pp., 8°, 5, Gt Cheyne Row, Chelsea, 18 Dec, 1850, wanting to consult with Owen on Friday evening for tea but cannot dine out twice a week because his "Dyspepsia rules supreme, and perpetually tyrannises". He adds "We have done little in the Assyrian way, either my wife or I; and independently of Layard's or Nebuchadnazzer's by Bull, we should both of us much court the acquaintance of any authentic magatherium, or antique Bull of God Almighty's Sculpturing."
With an autograph letter in its envelope addressed to Thomas Carlyle from Thomas Constable and a series of 18th and 19th century autograph letters from Joseph Hume, Lord Jeffrey, Charles Sumner, Henry Brougham, Samuel Warren and Friedrich Max Mller.
Autograph letter signed ("T. Carlyle") to Mr Owen, 2 pp., 8°, 5, Gt Cheyne Row, Chelsea, 18 Dec, 1850, wanting to consult with Owen on Friday evening for tea but cannot dine out twice a week because his "Dyspepsia rules supreme, and perpetually tyrannises". He adds "We have done little in the Assyrian way, either my wife or I; and independently of Layard's or Nebuchadnazzer's by Bull, we should both of us much court the acquaintance of any authentic magatherium, or antique Bull of God Almighty's Sculpturing."
With an autograph letter in its envelope addressed to Thomas Carlyle from Thomas Constable and a series of 18th and 19th century autograph letters from Joseph Hume, Lord Jeffrey, Charles Sumner, Henry Brougham, Samuel Warren and Friedrich Max Mller.