. New letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle; annotated by Thomas Carlyle and ed. by Alexander Carlyle, with an introduction by Sir James Crichton-Browne ... with sixteen illustrations. t Jeannie (a very pattern of amiability, mod-est neatness and dexterity), she much hked. The place, alittle Farm, with hardy old Farmhouse, thin and high, isbeautifully situated on a broad knoll in the valley of theNith; and had been trimmed, by Aunt Jeannies frugalingenuity and assiduity, into quite a beauty of a rusticDwcllinghouse with garden and appurtenances; a rightpleasant shelter for the old Papa!
. New letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle; annotated by Thomas Carlyle and ed. by Alexander Carlyle, with an introduction by Sir James Crichton-Browne ... with sixteen illustrations. t Jeannie (a very pattern of amiability, mod-est neatness and dexterity), she much hked. The place, alittle Farm, with hardy old Farmhouse, thin and high, isbeautifully situated on a broad knoll in the valley of theNith; and had been trimmed, by Aunt Jeannies frugalingenuity and assiduity, into quite a beauty of a rusticDwcllinghouse with garden and appurtenances; a rightpleasant shelter for the old Papa! Aunt Jeannies owncourse had been sad enough, cheerful as her air was; andshe died in some three years more. Grizzle (Grace orGrisel, my Mother-in-law), her elder Sister, had removed toTempland for residence, so soon as Comley Bank, Edin-burgh, was ready for us and ours; she, on Sisters lastillness, took charge of her Father (equally skilful, equallygenerous, tho much less patient and amenable); and con-tinued there till her own death. My poor Tugurium of Hoddam Hill had kindled its * Walter Welsh was Mrs. Carlyles maternal Grandfather. &h- ^- ^^^. ^ ^.-4^ ??•^ ^ ^??^jM). 11 .if if I 4 2; A?^ « *. * Jane Welsh Carlyle 5 household fire in May last, or earlier, and been my habi-tation ever since: one of the simplest establishments aWriting Man, out of health, and not far in of money, orof any other resource, could contrive for himself in thisworld! But it did hitherto quite prosperously well for me,and was felt as an immense reUef from the intolerable fret,noise and confusion that had gone before. Brother Alick,with a cheap little man-servant, worked the farm, on liisown footing and responsibility; my dear old Mother, withour maid-servant, and generally with Jean (always withher or Jenny, my two youngest Sisters,—Mainhill, withFather and two eldest ditto, only five miles off, in con-stant intercourse with us). Brother John, home fromEdinburgh in Summer time, was usually our g
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