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Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

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!VAKNHAGEN VON ENSE IN THE YEAES 1837-57 247*tirely illegible.—* Zinzendorf ' received long since,and read :thanksYours ever truly,T. <strong>Carlyle</strong>.XVIIIChelsea, London : March 3, 1847.My dear Sir,— Some ten days ago your new volume<strong>of</strong> * Denkwiirdigkeiten was ' safely handed in to me ;I fancy it must have been delayed among the ice <strong>of</strong>the Elbe, for the note accompanying it bears date agood while back. Thanks for this new kindness : avalued Gift, to be counted with very many other whichI now owe to you.—Some time before, there had arrivedyour announcement that the little Tomb <strong>of</strong> Shakespearehad made its way across the impediments and,what was very welcome to me, that you meant toshow it to Herr Tiek. Surely, there is no man in allthe world that deserves better to see it ! Will yousay to him, if he knows my name at all, that I sendhim my affectionate respects and salutations ;that, forthe last twenty years and more, he has flourishedalways in my mind as a true noble * Singing-Tree ' inthat German land <strong>of</strong> Phantasus and Poesis, that I,and very many here, still listen to him with thefriendliest regards, with true love and reverence, and'Varnhagen von Ense, Leben des Grafen von Zinzendorf, in the5th volume <strong>of</strong> the Blocjiaijhische Denkmale, 1330.

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