Excerpt from New Letters of Thomas Carlyle, Vol. 2 Dear FitzGerald. - Here is another small job for you. It seems a possibility at present that I may put in somewhere, by way of Appendix, these Anecdotes of Mrs. Bendysh, which are in Noble (ii.329). Now will you read those pages of Noble, once more, carefully over, with an eye that way. You will find one does not learn where Mrs. Bendysh lived( near Yarmouth somewhere), what her or her husband's business was, or anything about their economic peculiarities and earthly localities; so that the whole matter looks there very much like a thing in Drury Lane. Now I want you to ask the Essex Archdeacon, or whoever he or she is that descends from Mrs. Bendysh, whether there is not ill the Family any certain knowledge as to all these points, any clear Tradition even, - any light to be had that would complete what you see to be wanting in the business. You Leave a Nohle have you not? or can get one about Bedford? I could cut you out these leaves and send them by post. Perhaps that will be best? You will then at once see what is wanting in general there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836, Vol. 2 Our plans here are getting a little more fixed: I can now give you some faint fore shadow of them. I pride myself that I have never gone half a foot out of my road in search of what are called prospects: it is yet and has always been clear to me that I was one whom Promotion was least of all likely to visit. Thank Heaven I know my trade: it is to write tram while I can be kept alive by so doing, and to die writing it when I can no longer be kept alive. SO feeling, I look upon all mortals with the friendliest humour; let Kings and Chancellors fight their own battles, and all speed to them let the Devil go his way, and I will go mine. Therefore after settling my Author-business in London, I will not stay an hour, waiting at the pool, as some advise me. On the whole the world stands related. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.