Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

!244 LETTERS WRITTEN BY THOMAS CARLYLE TOour London Library, a favourite reading for all mannerof intelligent men and women : but I think they arehardly all here, and we ought to have them all.Pray do not forget this.—I have lately been reading^Billow-Cummerow on Prussia : a somewhat commonplace,longwinded, watery man :out of whom, however,I glean some glimpses of Prussian life, which arevery strange to me. Almost the converse of ours ;full of struggle, full of energy and difficulty ; so likeand so unlike !Our wanderings here are not yet concluded. Theday after to-morrow we go down to the Sea-Coast inHampshire, for a week or two of winter sunshine,and the sight of kind friends, in a climate muchsuperior to London at this season. One of ourgracious Hosts is the Lady to whom that FriedrichBook of Printsyou sent us has gone.—I should havetold 3^ou long since that my Wife made friendship withMiss Wynne, of whom we hope to see more in timecoming.And now for the present, Farewell. I will wishstrength and good-speed; courageous resistance tothe Winter, and to all other enemies and obstacles, ofwhich a man finds always enoughWith true regard yours always,T. Caelylb.' Preussen, seme Verfassting, seine Verwalkmg, sein Verhaltnisszu Deutschland, von Ernst Gottfried Georg von Biilow-Cummerow.The book was published 1842, first gift of the freedom from censorship,granted by order of the cabinet dated 4th October, 1842, tobooks above 320 pages.