Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

'!VAENHAGEN VON ENSE IN THE YEAES 1837-57 239obliged. One might have it bound here ; but theforeign binding will be more piquant. It should bedone anmuthig, yet with much modesty :to your taste for that.we will trustOn the outside of one of theboards (of course not on the hack) there should belegible, within a border, the letters H. M. B. ' ' (whichmean Harriet Montague Baring) and * Addiscombe(the place of residence). These are rather singularduties to impose upon you !Nevertheless I will trustto yom' goodness for doing them even with pleasure.And pray observe farther : I cannot consent to theoperation at all unless you leave the whole moneypart of it to be settled by myself with the booksellerhere;that is an absolute condition, a sine qua non.Another lady has employed me inanother somewhatsingular thing of the Book kind,—which also,when your hand is in, I may as well ask you to do.It is to send a copy of the established Domestic-'Cookery Book ' of Germany ! We wish to see whatthe Germans live upon ; and perhaps to make incidentalexperiments of our own out of that. Anygnddige Frau acquainted with her duties will directyou what the right Book is. It need not be bound ;it is for use :to get the right Book is the great point.I hope you will so far approve this InternationalTendency, and new virtuosity on the part of highpersons here, as to lend due help m the matter* Absolute condition,' or sine qua non, as in the formercase.