SD1516. Diary Entry of Thomas Carlyle

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 275.

Chelsea

[30 September 1851]

After breakfast (then, I think) call on the Brownings. Very sorry they that I am bound for home perhaps to-morrow, at any rate next day; will come to them to tea ‘if possible.’ … I withdraw to Browning’s before seven. Great welcome there; and tea in quiet; Browning gives me (being cunningly led to it) copious account of the late ‘revolutions’ at Florence,—such a fantastic piece of Drury-lane ‘revolution’ as I have seldom heard of. With all such ‘revolutions’ may the devil swiftly fly away! …

Text: Last Words of Thomas Carlyle (London, 1892), pp. 183–184.

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