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Three Carlyle Documents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

George J. Worth
George J. Worth*
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University of Kansas
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Notes, Documents, and Critical Comment
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PMLA , Volume 71 , Issue 3 , June 1956 , pp. 542 - 544
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1956

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References

1 Literary Recollections and Sketches (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1893), p. 305. Espinasse devotes three chapters, pp. 301–337, to a valuable account of Hannay and his circle.

2 R. H. Shepherd printed an earlier letter, dated 5 Sept. 1855, from Carlyle to Hannay in his Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Carlyle (London: Allen, 1881), ii, 153–154.

3 These and other Hannay papers are in the possession of the Univ. of Illinois.

4 Anagram of “Sydney,” pseudonym of Sydney Dobell, the spasmodic poet.

5 John Pinkerton (1758–1826), in his Enquiry into the History of Scotland, first published in 1789, consistently referred to the Picts as barbarous and ignorant.

6 Apparently a reference to his History of… Frederick the Great, 6 vols. (1858–65), of which only the first two volumes had then been finished.