Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

—VAENHAGEN VON ENSE IN THE YEARS 1837-57 197repose and friends.Once more I say to you, and nowwith proper significance, Many thanks.Insight, Hvehness, originaHty, the hardy adroitspirit of a man who has seen and suffered and done,in all things acquitting himself like a man, shines outon me, in graceful coherence, light, sharp, decisive,from all parts of this as of your other books. It isa great, and to me a most rare, pleasure in thesetimes to find that I agree wholly on all importantmatters with a writer ; that in many highest caseshis words are precisely such as I should wish to hearspoken. But, indeed, your view of Goethe being alsomine, we set out as it were from a great centre ofunity, and travel lovingly together towards allmanner of regions. For the rest, nothing pleases memore than your descriptions of facts and transactions,a class of objects which grows continually in significancewith me, as much else yearly and dailydwindles away, in treating which a man best of allshows what manner of man he is. I read withspecial interest your Doctor Bollmann,^ a name notaltogether new to me ; I could read volume aftervolume of such autobiography as that you give ussuch Halle universities, such Battles of Wagram,•The reference to Justus Erich Bollmann is to be found inthe fourth volume of the Denkiviirdigkeitcn und vermischteSchriften, by Varnhagen. There is also published an excellentessay about him by Friedrich Koj^p in the Deutsche Rundschau,vol. xviit. (1879), entitled ' Justus Erich Bollmann und die FluchtLafayette's aus Olmiitz.'