Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

:278 LETTERS WRITTEN BY THOMAS CARLYLE TOgot a copy of his 'Heldenverehrung,' and to bid youdemand one appointed, at Decker's/ if not.—Adieu.XXVIChelsea, London : Aug. 12, 1857.My dear Sir,—About ten days ago, there came tome a very pretty message fii'om Berhn : a note fromyou in the incomparable hand so familiar to me ofold, and a beautiful little book,^ which entertamed megreatly for several evenings after.I am truly glad toget a word from you, in assurance of the olddispositiontowards me, and marking that you arestill welland active ; such things grow ever more precious asone grows more solitary in this world,—inexorable timemore and more exercising his sad privilege upon us !Do not forget me ; nor will I you,—amid the wrecksthat go on around us.The book is altogether deUghtful reading :I havesent it on, the instant it was finished here, to my Wife,who has run into Scotland during the heats, and whoI dare say is busy now upon it.Nothing can be moregracefully thrown off; with perfect clearness too, sofar as the circumstances permitted. It gives me'The Geheime Ober-Hofbuchdnickerei of Decker, who publishedthe German translations of Carlyle's writings.2 It is the book of Varnhagen's niece, Ludmilla Assing, entitledGrafin Elisa von Ahlefeld, die Gattin Adolphs von Liitzow, dieFreundin Karl Immermanns. Nebst Briefen von Immermann,Moller und Henriette Paalzow. Berlin 1857.