Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

—256 LETTERS WRITTEN BY THOMAS CARLYLE TOUS all if there be not abundant silent heroic faculty inthe heart of it;— and indeed it is to England andDeutschland that the Problem seems to me now tohave fallen : and a dreadful Problem it is,—msolubleby the Southern genius, as we see. God assist usall!I am ever your affectionate Friend,T. Caklyle.Goethe and the Frau von Stein :but that deservesa chapter by itself ! I read your copy. With pleasantwonder, which has not yet subsided into clearappreciation.'[There is a ' Memorandumon a separate bit of paper :]' joined to this letter,My wife, for above a year past, is acquaintedwith your works done on paper by the scissors ; worksthat fill the female fingers with despair,—thefemale heart with desire to possess for itself a fewspecimens.Can you kindly think of this, some afterdinner?—T.C.'GoetJies Bricfe an Frau von Stein, herausgegeben von AdolfSchoU, 1848-51.At the same time Carlyle wrote about this book tohis friend Miss Charlotte Williams Wynne, who is often mentioned inthese letters I have read little yet— Goethe is quite Wertherian:—'and the Frau von Stein, a consummate flirt, seems to have led an edifyinglife,—what did the poor Herr von Stein say to it ? ' ' This is acoarse view,' says Miss Wynne in her letter to Varnhagen, to whomshe communicates it, ' but so like Carlyle that I give it.'