ALS signed “T. Carlyle,” one page both sides, 5 x 8.5, February 23, 1851. Handwritten letter to the wife of a literary man, evaluating some writing samples. In part: "Judging by those small specimens, your husband seems really to harness a vein of pious gentle sensibility…qualities which, in writing or otherwise, will turn to good account for him and you, if he guide them well…By and by, having well condensed and elaborated himself, and accumulated with experiences in this world, he may find that he has something weighty of his own possessing him to write it. Otherwise why should a man write at all? Our first duty is not to write, but to know and to be: a fact greatly forgotten by many at present!" In fine condition, with a bit of faint staining.
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