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SD1567.  Thomas Carlyle to John A. Carlyle

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 363 (in part).

Chelsea,

17 April, 1852—

My dear Brother,

Your Letter announcing the arrival of the Box had not come … One Montégut … and his Editor have been bothering me this long while, under various modes, for some autobiographic materials, portrait &c, which I absolutely refused to have any concern with furnishing; at last, two months ago, I wrote, for this Montégut, Browning’s Address upon a card of mine; but even that does not seem to have finished off the man and his importunities. …

Publication: Carlyle, 27, 84–85.

Manuscript: National Library of Scotland.

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