“My dearCarlyle,—I am
your debtor, and Varnhagen’s too, for a very neat
and pleasant little book, which you shall read when you like. I am sorry to
hear you are low, but I am myself in
profundissimis.—Ever yours,
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Scottish essayist and man of letters; he translated Goethe's Wilhelm
Meister (1824) and published Sartor Resartus
(1833-34).
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
Editor of the Quarterly Review (1825-1853); son-in-law of Walter
Scott and author of the Life of Scott 5 vols (1838).
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Author: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
Title:The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897).
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Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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