Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

—264 LETTERS WRITTEN BY THOMAS CARLYLE TO—And so I remain in suspense; have however gotPreuss's big book, and decide to read that again verysoon. I am much at a loss for mafps and good tojpographieson that subject : if you could select me avery recommendable name or two, it might be of realhelp. We have huge map-dealers here, a wildernessof wares; and can get any German thing at once,if we will know ivhich. Item, I have been readingagain (for curiosity merely) about Catharine II. :— youwho know Eussian might guide me a little there too.Catharine is a most remarkable woman ;—and we areto remember that, if she had been a maji (as Francis I.,Henry IV., &c.), how much of thescandal attachedto her name would at once fall away. Doubtless youhave read Kropomisky's Tagebuch * ' : is it good foranything ? Are there no Histories but Castera's andTook's ? Any news on that subject would be welcometoo, some time when you are benevolent to me.Adieu, my dear Sir, and do not forget me!T. Carlyle.We have lost Miss Wynne's latitude and longitudein these her travels. If she comes to Berlin, remindher punctually of that fact.—Milnes, as you perhapsknow, is at last wedded ;just returning from hismarriage-jaunt : a very eligible wife he got.