Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

216 LETTEKS WRITTEN BY THOMAS CARLYLE TOStuhr, as you predict, is heavy ; but I find himsolid and earnest, I believe I shall find it well worthwhile to travel thro' him.' One's desire to knowabout the old days is so unquenchable ; the average offulfilment to it grows at length so very low ! Stuhris very far indeed above what I have to call * far ' inlate times.Some fortnight ago, I sent off the 'Life of Eichter'by the channel you pointed out. There was notanother copy readily procurable ; so I sent you the onewe had ourselves been reading here. There, was aMitchell's Life * of Wallenstein ' added, which perhapsyou may find partly interesting even in its very shortcomings.Mitchell is an honest man ; but his indignationagainst much inanity that he has to witness herethrows him into somewhat of a cramped antagonismnow and then. He is distinguished here by his deadlyenmity to the bayonet, which he declares to be a totalchimera in war,—false, damnable, heretical, almost inthe old ecclesiastic sense ! My stock of autographswhich I have had much pleasure ingathering for youis of much more bulk than value ! Hardly a halfdozen of men very interesting to you will you findhere ; the rest are transitory notabilities,— on many ofwhom as they are like to be entirely unknown out of'We conclude from the inquiry made in the preceding letterthat, under the numerous works of the Prussian historian PeterFeddersen Stuhr, here is meant Die Brandenburg Isch-PreussischeKriegsverjassung zur Zeit Friedrich Wilhehns des grossen Kurfiirstcn(Berlin, 1819).