[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Thomas Carlyle SIGNED Letter about tobacco, price reduced
Charles Agvent
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Sun Sep 2 18:29:19 EDT 2012
Price reduced: Was $1500, Now $1000
CARLYLE, Thomas. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Chelsea, 16 Dec. 1843.
Fine letter (4-3/4" x 7-1/2") consisting of @275 words on 2-1/2 pages on
an integral sheet of paper addressed "My Dear Sir" dated 16 December
1843, 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, and SIGNED "T. Carlyle." Carlyle thanks the
unknown recipient for samples of tobacco sent to him--"one of black
common shag, the other of plain brown American leaf, unadulterated by
any British manufacturing whatsoever"--and goes on at some length
describing the qualities of the tobacco with several mentions of his
wife, Jane. In part: "...all this [the black shag] I smoked, not without
satisfaction, as a kind superior to any I could procure in these parts.
The second specimen I am now engaged in,--and, alas, nearly thro' it; I
write to you now for a further supply of this. It comes the nearest to
smokeable tobacco of all I have had since last year when some invaluable
smuggled Cavendish[?] was ministered to me.... You have great things on
the anvil, we hear, at present! May the Destinies will it all to
happiness for yourself and another. We are well; at least, well for us,
poor [?], ever-afflicted creatures." Carlyle's name in another early
hand at the top of the letter. Minor wear at creases; some mounting
traces on verso. Fine. (#012002) $1,000.00
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