Lot 221

Hunt, Leigh and Thomas Carlyle

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 5 September 2007 at 12:00 BST
£576
Description
4 page autograph letter signed from Leigh Hunt to an unnamed correspondent apologising for not having acknowledged receipt of a letter due to an illness so severe "as to hinder me almost entirely from writing" but inviting him to "an early tea with an invalid who is obliged to take his meals at plebian hours", 2 Phillimore Terrace, Kensington, April 7th; Carlyle, Thomas Autograph letter signed to Mrs Stanley, "unless this poisonous easterly weather, and the ... set of nerves in the world, prove too hard for me I will certainly come - afraid only of being too happy! Yours ever truly, T. Carlyle", one page, 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, Thursday
