. 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. day! Very creditable to your head and hort! Then Iput some of my clothes in the portmanteau; then satdown to tea; and while drinking my first cup, John Ferguswalked in! Very dull! It must have taken a great dealto make a man so dull as that! Yesterday my whole forenoon was cut up by there I went to another Artistf^ but of that trans-action I am not going to tell you just yet: Lord! whatfun! A


. 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. day! Very creditable to your head and hort! Then Iput some of my clothes in the portmanteau; then satdown to tea; and while drinking my first cup, John Ferguswalked in! Very dull! It must have taken a great dealto make a man so dull as that! Yesterday my whole forenoon was cut up by there I went to another Artistf^ but of that trans-action I am not going to tell you just yet: Lord! whatfun! At six came Fairie; and after eight, Forster, ac-tually, who staid till eleven! And that he did not kissme when he went away seemed more a mercy of Providencethan anything else! To-night I am to have Miss Wynn;and to-morrow night, poor Bolte, as usual. On Mondayat three I start, having announced myself to , mercy! Mr. Neuberg is so delighted that, as PhoebeBaiUie felt with Macleay,t I hardly like to venture tohim without an escort of dragoons! Did I send the *A phrenologist and character reader. fThe Artist who painted Miss Welshs miniature in 1826, justbefore her 9„ /(fy //. U>C07 ^A fm9) * Jane Welsh Carlyle 259 Letter he ^Tote to you? I have no recollection of puttingit up, and if not, it is swept into the general flood ofthings. That one was kind, but perfectly composed, andwithout any poetry of expression. This to me, is, Whatshall I say? passionate, upon my honour! Poor Romeforced to capitulate after all!—Oh, dear me, twelve oclockalready! and I am meaning to take a fly to-day and leavethe plate at Bath Hoase; and ask for Mrs. Chorley andtake a Book written for by Croucher, and do a thousandthings.— God keep you, with good sleep,—and good appetite and good everything. Yours ever, J. C. LETTER 107 To T. Carhjlc, Post Office, Cork. Rawdon, Sat., 14 July, 1849. Goodness Gracious! what is to be done? Will a Letterdirected Post-office, Cork, be


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