Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

'220 LETTEKS WRITTEN BY THOMAS CARLYLE TOalready ordered from the bookseller : I have alsoread with attention the German Version of oneStrinnholm a Swede on the ' Wikingsziige,'—it issomething, not much. This ; and some nine or tenBooks of travels in Iceland, from not one of which canI gain the smallest distinct insight even as to whatspecially the outward look of the Island is !— -If inyour circle, you happen toknow any real Master inScandinavian things, you could perhaps question himfor me, on some convenient occasion :perhaps even aGerman Book- catalogue, if I knew which, mightinstruct me in several things.There was one other matter, of the smallestpossible weight, about which I have often forgotten toask you a small question. In the supplement toCreuzer's ' Symbolik,' written I think by one Mone(which I found to be but a stupid book) there isaccount given of an ancient German Body having beendug up from some morass, I think in the neighbourhoodof Paderborn, in which, orsome such museum,says Mone, the Body yet lies ; due account of thebusiness having been given in printed Transactions'or the like, to which he refers.If I remember rightlythe date is 1817. But I have not Mone's book athand ;and, as you see, the matter has got somewhatdim for me. The purport of my request is, that ifthere was any Pamphlet published about it, any Paperin some Society's Transactions, or other attainableArticle descriptive of this singular affair, you would