Letter: 1865 Nov. 17, Chelsea [London], to David Laing / T. Carlyle. 1865.

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Letter: 1865 Nov. 17, Chelsea [London], to David Laing / T. Carlyle. 1865.

Concerns Carlyle's request that Laing takes up the post of Rector's Assessor at Edinburgh University, and discusses the timing of his (Carlyle's) inaugural address as Rector .

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