Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

VARNHAGEN VON ENSE IN THE YEARS 1837-57 199Perhaps you sometimes write to Weimar ; if so,pray offer our peculiar regards, my wife's and mine,to Madame von Goethe. I sent Dr. Eckermann apacket and letter, sixmonths ago, to which there isyet no answer. His ' Gesprache ' ^ and your remarkson them were right welcome.No such book had I seen for years; it set mesearching, tho' with httle effect, thro' Sylvestre deSacy and others ; it remains a distinct acquisition forme that I shall never part with.His Chinese Song-book I have been enjoying inthese very weeks. He is a man whose heartiestfriends must lie wide- scattered in such an era as ours,and ought to speak out as they have opportunity.I have been writinga Book on the French Kevolution,which will perhaps get to Berlin by and by.German Literature diffuses itself here and in America,rapidly, lustily, without further effort of mine. Itsconsequences, as I calculate, will be great and beneficial,on the new generation now risinginto activity.Deutschland will reclaim her great Colony ; we shallbecome more DeutscJt, that issame time.to say more English, atThe Deutsche Stamm is now clearly in the ascendant; seems as if it were destined to take the mainpart of the earthly globe, and rule it for a time!'Vols. i. and ii. of the Gesprache mit Goethe, by Eckermann,were puLlished 1836. The essay Varnhagen wrote thereupon isto be found m vol. vi. of his Denkxuilrdujkeiten und vermischteSchriften.