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SD1596.  Thomas Carlyle to Jane Welsh Carlyle

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 370 (in part).

Scotsbrig,

Wednesday 11 a.m. 25 Augt 1852

Dear Jeannie mine! This morning on awakening, I recollect with a shudder …

Find that Passport I spoke of; but do not send it to me: take it to some trusty helpful man (Ld Ashburton, I shd think); ask him in the name of Charity to get it or a new one constructed for Bohemia (i.e. Austria) and Prussia (Bunsen by the b’ye, if he is in town? Or Browning (better still?)– …

Publication: Carlyle, 27, 249–250.

Manuscript: National Library of Scotland.

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