Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

'194 LETTERS WRITTEN BY THOMAS CARLYLE TOreviewed in England. At least Carlyle devoted tothe * Denli-wiirdigkeiten,' as well as to the formerwritings of Varnhagen relating to his wife Eahel, along article in the London and Westminster Review'(1838). Subsequently the connection became importantfor both these men. After the death ofGoethe Carlyle's personal relationsto Germany werealmost confined to occasional and withal rare meetingswith Germans living in London. He received,from time to time, letters and messages from Germany,but they were, as he wrote to Emerson, of nogreat moment. When the message of Varnhagencame, the * History of the French Revolution ' wasabout to be published, and the trouble ofsupervisingthe press, as well as the preparation of his lectures onthe German literature, may have retarded the answerto Varnhagen's letter. But at length he wrote;and thus the apostle of German genius and Germanliterature in England entered into direct communicationagain with a German writer, and with thatwriter who was in the very centre of the Hterary lifein Germany at that time. Thence a continuouscorrespondence arose, yet which was maintained byoccasional messages from both sides. Varnhagensent to Carlyle the later volumes of his *Denkwiirdigkeiten' and other German books the latterwas in need of; Carlyle sent to Varnhagen hiswritings and autographs of English authors andpublic men, for autographs became more and more