Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

;VARNIIAGEN VON ENSE IN THE YEARS 1837-57 235weeks ago,—^just as the Printing of the Book was aboutcompleted : still in time. We admire much the newPortrait of Schiller.It was put at once into the handof the Publisher ; who with all alacrity, set about engaging* the best Engraver,'—whose name I do notknow ; whose quality I much insisted on ; and whom,accordingly, I suppose to be busy with the operationeven now. Hitherto I have heard nothing farthermy Publishers live far off in the heart of the City andits noises ; and all my locomotions at this period directthemselves towards the opposite quarter. But ofcourse I expect to see a Proof before they publish :the Artist do his duty, it will not fail of welcome fromall parties.I would thank you and the kind Madamvon Kalb ^ for all your kindness : but you will notaccept even of thanks. I suppose this must be thereal likeness of Schiller, in fact ; whosoever spreadsthis abroad, to the gradual extrusion of the others, isdoing a good thing ! Wehave hung up the littleMedallions on the wall, where they shall many timesremind us of you.Your ' Life of Bllicher ' came next ; which shallsolace my earliest leisure ;—and which in the meanwhiledoes not lie idle, but gets itself read with acceptancein the house. I forwarded the copy to Mr.if'Fraulein von Kalb, who was, since the death of her motherCharlotte von Stein, lady of honour at the court of Berlin. In herpossession was the miniature whose reproduction adorns the secondedition of Carlyle's Life of Friedricli Schiller.