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SD1145.1.  Thomas Carlyle to John Sterling

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 5.

Chelsea

12 jany, 1841—

Dear Sterling,

The one good thing I did yesterday,—swallowed, we may fear, by the mass of mischief one is daily sure to do,—was the hunting out of a Strafford’s Trial for you …

Browning’s Strafford I have never seen, nor shall see. The man himself is not without good faculty; but dwells in an element of Charles-Lamb-ism, British-Museum Classicality, and other Cockney encumbrance; out of which, not without a great effort, he will perhaps contrive to struggle. …

Publication: Carlyle, 13, 15–16.

Manuscript: National Library of Scotland.

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