Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

—VARNHAGEN VON EJSSE IN THE YEARS 1837-57 279curious glimpses into the latest chapter of your BerlinHistories, which was quite dark to me before.Immermann,&c. I had heard of ; but only as rumours ofNames ; I never read anything of Immermann,—nordoes this narration give me much appetite to him :he plays but a sorry figure here. On the whole, atragic Female History throughout; things all goneawry in that and other departments, and no immediateprospect of their coming right again ! But theOrafin herself is very beautiful, in her sorrows andotherwise ;a fine clear Being,—clear, sharp, as if shewere made of steel. Perhaps there are other goodbooks upon that Freischaar of Liitzow's, and thehuman aspects of the Befreiungskrieg in Prussia ?They would be welcome to me, if they are at all likethis present one,—had I gone into a little leisure again.The last letter in the book, about digging up thefriend'sbody, and bringing it home to natal earth,has a grim pathos, and silent Tanferkeit and Redlichkeitthat goes into one's very heart.—Ask thefair authoress if she has not other books perhaps, ofthe like quality, lying in her heart !her, with my respectful homages, that I findYou can assurea book extremely well worth writing, and wellreading.For months and years past Ithis oneworthhave been sunk asman seldom was, in the dismallest Stygian regions,struggling with thisunblessed Task of mine, whichI have often thought would kill me outright. You