. 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. Hoddam Hill. Haddington, Wednesday, Spring, 1826. My dear Mrs. Carlyle—Thomas mentioned your wishto hear from mc, more than two weeks since, and the in-timation, I assure you, woukl have placed me at mywriting-desk forthwith; but that it happened I had a capfor you just then on hand, which I somehow settled inmy own mind inust go along with the letter.—Now, I amby no means, the speediest needlewoman in the
. 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. Hoddam Hill. Haddington, Wednesday, Spring, 1826. My dear Mrs. Carlyle—Thomas mentioned your wishto hear from mc, more than two weeks since, and the in-timation, I assure you, woukl have placed me at mywriting-desk forthwith; but that it happened I had a capfor you just then on hand, which I somehow settled inmy own mind inust go along with the letter.—Now, I amby no means, the speediest needlewoman in the world, asyou had ample opportunity of noticing while I sojournedat the Hill; and besides I have been unfitted for workingat anything lately, but by starts, owing to an almostcontinual severe pain in my head: so that, all things con-sidered, it is sufficiently intelligible how, with the bestintentions, I should not have put the finishing stitch tothis labour of love, till within the present hour. And whatis it, after all my pains? Alas, that I have to fall on sopaltry a shift to manifest my afTectionate remembrance ofyou! Alas, that it has not pleased Fate to make me a * -r>^. ... -^ •ir^.
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