Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

——;284LETTER OF THOMAS CAELYLE TO KARLEDUARD VEHSE (born 1802, died 1870),AUTHOR OF ' GESCHICHTE DEE DEUTSCHEN HOFE SEIT DEE EE-FORMATION,' 48 VOLS., HAMB. 1851-58, ' SHAKESPEAEE ALSPOLITIKEE, PSYCHOLOG UND DICHTEE,' 2 VOLS., HAMB. 1851,AND OTHEE BOOKS.5 Cheyne Eow, Chelsea, London : Octr. 11, 1853.My dear Sir,—Since I saw you last year in Dresden,I have been reading a great many of your booksfinding in them, as all the world does, abundantentertainment, and endless matter for reflexion. Itis very surprising to me how you have contrived toamass such a quantity of floating information onthings seldom formally recorded ; and how correct itall is ; at least how correct our British part of it,is, which I naturally take as a sample of the whole.You do often name your authorities, which is a greatsatisfaction to every careful reader ; if you had in allcases done so, itwould among other advantages havesaved you the trouble of this Note, which I hadlong had it in view to venture upon writing to you,containing the two following inquiries :1. Can you teU me, in what book or books thataccount of George the First's Death is to be found,