CARLYLE THOMAS Autograph Letter Signed T Carlyle to an unnam

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"READY FOR . . . WALKING, UNDER THE COOL NOCTURNAL SKIES, AS MY HABIT IS" CARLYLE, THOMAS. Autograph Letter Signed, "T. Carlyle," to an unnamed recipient ("My dear Sir"), inviting him to tea, and elaborately urging him to find a position in the Church for a young man named Wilson. 4 pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet; remnants of prior mounting to first page along center vertical fold (touching a couple of letters of text), faint bleed-through overall. Chelsea, 8 July 1863

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". . . At 8, if you . . . c'd come down to us, you w'd find my wife making tea, and both of us right glad to see you,--me, after tea, ready for any amount of walking, under the cool nocturnal skies, as my habit is. . . .
". . . [P]ermit me to say now, on behalf of Wilson (whom I meant to speak of to you, for a long time back), what is now more specially incumbent on me after the request he made . . . . He boasts to have been of your late worthy Father's ordination, and to have enjoyed kindness and favour from him; wh'h I have no difficulty in believing to have been well bestowed. Wilson has good talents, good scholarship, is of eloquent sonorous temper, as well as voice;--has in general something of decorous, pious, sacerdotal in the character and ways of him; and is well loved and esteemed by all that know him. What has alone hurt his progress in the Church and the world, I conceive, has been the too changeful road he has been led into,--by accident or otherwise. If Coburg prove, at last, a permanency for him, he may still do very well there . . . . Wilson, as he now stands in his mature state, is a man that will never discredit the Church of England, abroad or at home, but prove a worthy and loyal representative of it, as he greatly wishes to do."