SD1560. Thomas Carlyle to William White
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 361 (in part).
Chelsea,
22 March, 1852—
Dear Sir,
Accept my acknowledgements for the kind Gift you have been pleased to send me …
Of the Shelley business I had heard nothing except vague distant rumour, till your Pamphlet set it in a clear light for me. … The ambiguous “Mr Byron,” of whom I had heard nothing for several years, proves to be a very singular fellow; and has struck out a filial relation of the most unexampled kind! We will thank him for Browning’s Essay …
Publication: Carlyle, 27, 73–75.
Manuscript: National Library of Scotland.
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