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Jane Welsh
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Jane Welsh : [letters to Carlyle]
'I have been in bed 9 days now and still must not get up. My one enjoyment is in reading the letters of Carlyle and Jane Welsh before their marriage... She begins in the smartest, pertest, Jane Welsh way, but gradually the other Jane begins to break through, passionate, melancholy, impatient, fun-loving - fame-hungry almost - and nervous. But she seems to care for him only as a friend - the idea of marriage is disgusting to her. She is very like me; they had not met for months, had only two hours, and she wasted it all by forcing a quarrel she did not want. And her "arch enemy" was headache.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White Print: Book
Jane Welsh : [letters to Carlyle]
'Still in bed. Have finished the love letters and left my pair on the brink of marriage... [She] is as lively and hare-brained a rattle as anyone could wish... She nearly killed herself by going out hatless in an east wind so as not to upset the dressing of her hair; another time she fell off a wall "trying to hide her ankles" from Dr Fyffe. Yet another time in her zeal for study she sewed the bodices to the skirts of her frocks so that she could dress in ten minutes.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White Print: Book
Jane Welsh : [letters to Carlyle]
'The more I go into Jane, the more, in a way, she repels me. The Love-Letters, read for the 3rd time, show [italics] him [end italics] in a far better light. She is maddening with her archness and her flirtations and her sham high-browism and her "wee wee Cicero". But it is interesting to see how awful young girls are.; novelists, except Tolstoy, never se it...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White Print: Book
Jane Baillie Welsh : Letter dated 29th January
'My own Jane!- You are a noble girl; and your true and generous heart shall not lie oppressed anotehr instant under any weight that I can tkae from it... This letter is, I think, the best you ever sent me; there is more of the true woman, of the essence of my Jane's honourable nature in it, than I ever saw before. Such calm quiet good-sense, and such confiding simple true affection! I were myself a pitiable man, if it did not move me.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Manuscript: Letter
Jane Baillie Welsh : Will
'Mr Donaldson has seen my will too with your name written in it in great letters. No matter! why should I be ashamed of shewing an affection which I am not ashamed to feel- But we will talk over all these things when we meet- It will take all your indulgence to excuse this breathless letter- God bless you my darling.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Donaldson Manuscript: Will
Jane Baillie Welsh : Letter dated 9 October 1825
'How kind, how simple, true and good! Beautifully welcome, in my sombre vacancy here! (Dumfries, Septr, 1868) This Letter to my Mother (dear kind Letter!) I must have brot [sic] with me from Templand. Legible without commentary,- or with almost none. The Nithsdale Visit is ab[ou]t terminating; and dull distant Haddington, with an uncertain future, lies ahead.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Manuscript: Letter
Jane Welsh Carlyle : Message about Aunt's death
'Your sad Messenger is just arrived. I had again been cherishing Hopes, when the day of Hope was clean gone. Compose yourself, my beloved Wife, and try to feel that the great Father is Good, and can do nothing wrong, inscrutable, and stern as his ways often seem to us.'
