SD1178. Thomas Carlyle to John Sterling

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 6, 369 (in part).

Chelsea

28 july, 1842–

Dear Sterling,

By the Catalogue of the London Library, I find there is a certain Philip Harwood who published Lectures on Strauss, our edition of which is dated 1841; …

Alcot came to me again the other day; little Paracelsus Browning, a dainty Leigh-Huntish kind of fellow, with much ingenuity, vivacity and Cockney gracefulness, happened to be here; and answered his solemn drawling recommendations of vegetable diet with light Cockney banter and logic; whereupon Alcot, at parting, told me “he would never come to me again!” …

Publication: Carlyle, 14, 240–242.

Manuscript: National Library of Scotland.

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