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Excerpt from Letters of Thomas Carlyle to His Youngest Sister: Edited With an Introductory Essay by Charles Townsend Copeland The letters printed in this volume were mainly written by Thomas Carlyle to his youngest sister, Mrs. Robert Hanning, who died in Toronto on the thirteenth day of December, 1897. Other members of the family are represented in the correspondence; there are a few letters - these perhaps the most interesting - from Carlyle to his mother; a few, also, from the mother to her oldest and to her youngest child. The collection extends from 1832 to 1890, when Mr. John Carlyle Aitken wrote to inform his aunt, Mrs. Hanning, of the death of James Carlyle, her youngest brother. The editor of these letters found it desirable to make a careful study of all the published Carlyle documents. The introductory essay on Carlyle as a Letter-Writer grew out of a comparison between Carlyle's correspondence with his family, and his letters to other persons, already printed by Mr. Norton and Mr. Froude. 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.