Nov 14, 2024 - Sale 2686

Sale 2686 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CARLYLE, THOMAS. Autograph Quotation Signed, "T. Carlyle," fair copy of his "Simon Brodie's Cow," complete in four lines, with an autograph postscript: "Could a man find his tail behind?" 1 page, 6x6¾ inches; folds (one affecting a line of text but without loss), faint scattered dampstaining, remnants of mounting overall verso. [London], 23 January 1849
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"Simon Brodie had a cow; / He lost his cow, and he could no[t] find her: / When he had done what man could do, / The cow came home and her tail behind her."