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An unpublished Carlyle letter in Leipzig

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The University Library in Leipzig contains a hitherto unpublished holograph letter of 13 August 1834 from Thomas Carlyle to Johann Peter Eckermann (1792–1854), the friend and collaborator of Goethe in the latter’s last decade (1823–32) and from 1836 the ducal librarian in Weimar. The letter forms part of the autograph collection assembled by the Rostock veterinarian Paul Nebauer (b. 1912) and given to the University Library in 1976.1 Catalogued under the shelfmark Slg. Nebauer/L/C-G/L101, the letter appears to have remained unknown to Carlyle scholars, and the unnamed recipient has not been previously identified.2 It merits attention as evidence of the facility of Anglo-German literary exchange in the 1830 s and...
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University of Oxford
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HUMS
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English Faculty
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University College
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Oxford University Press
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Volume:
65
Issue:
3
Pages:
372–375
Publication date:
2018-07-03
Acceptance date:
2018-05-14
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1471-6941
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0029-3970


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847881
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2018-05-16

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