Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

;VARNHAGEN von ENSE in the years 1837-57 2-19liveliest interest, your Book on Blilcher, which Ihadnot sufficiently studied before. A Capital Book; acapital rough old Prussian Mastiff set forth to usthere! I seem to see old Blucher face to face; recognisehis supreme and indispensable worth in thatvast heterogeneous Combination,—which also to himwas indispensable ;for in a common element, one sees,he might very easily have spent himself, aslike him have done, tohundredscomparatively small purposebut that huge inert mass was always there to fall backupon, to be excited and ever anew excited, till it alsohad to kindle and flame along with him.'Kerle, Ihrsehet aus tvie Schiceine ! 'and then these scenes, as atKatztadt, ' Napoleon just behind me, say you ? ' or tothe enthusiastic Public on thestreets of Halberstadt,*So mbgt Ihr denn alle / '—I have laughed aloud atsuch naivetes, every time they have come into mymind since.Thanks again and again for painting ussuch pictures, a real possession for all men.Probably you are aware there isa kind of translationgoing on for your Works, for our behoof, atpresent ? One Murray, a principal Bookseller here,has decided on picking out two volumes from you,for a Series of Books (' Home and Colonial Library,'or some such name) which he is going on with, inthese years. The Translator is of the Firm,which is partly known to you ;—respectable, he andhisEnterprize, and to be welcomed in the meanwhile ;but I ca*nnot but heartily wish he and his party hadK K