Autograph letter, signed T. Carlyle to John Sterling

by Thomas Carlyle

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Bifolium, 2 pp. 8vo. Old folds, wax seal remnants, very good. New Letters of Thomas Carlyle, Vol. 1, London: John Lane, 1904, p. 1-2. Item #346703 Carlyle writes to John Sterling 1806–1844 for an account of his – famously poor – health, offering the help of his wife, and quoting from Goethe.Sterling was a Scottish author. A follower of Coleridge, he was entrusted to edit his unpublished theological writings.

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