SD1178.1. Thomas Carlyle to Richard Monckton Milnes

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 6.

Chelsea

31 july, 1842—

Dear Milnes,

Here is Chambers’s Letter in answer to our cash. …

Did you see the Yankee Alcot in search of a man? …

This Alcot, the last time he saw me, found Browning here, who quizzed him, at least who did not in the least admire either him or his vegetable Diet, or his Dial or his New Ideas;—whereupon Alcot parted in almost open wrath; and to my question, When shall I see you again? answered with piercing emphasis, with both mouth and nose, “Never, I guess!” …

Publication: Carlyle, 14, 245–246.

Manuscript: Trinity College, Cambridge.

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