Letter: 1868 Jan. 22, Chelsea [London], to David Laing / T. Carlyle. 1868.

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Letter: 1868 Jan. 22, Chelsea [London], to David Laing / T. Carlyle. 1868.

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Thanking Laing for Scott's Staggering state with comments. Concerns the vacant Chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh.

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University of Edinburgh - Main Library, Edinburgh University Library

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University of Edinburgh. Department of Philosophy.

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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881

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Scottish historian and social critic considered the most important philosophical moralist of the early Victorian age. From the description of Letter, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122461042 Scottish essayist and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gt. Malvern, to Robert Browning, 1851 Aug. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133400 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chelsea, London, to William Tait, 1834 S...

Scott, John, Sir, 1585-1670

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Sir John was dismissed from his offices during the Commonwealth. He, himself, is the final subject of the manuscript: "Sir John was a councellor to king James and king Charles I and lord of exchequer and a lord of session.... By the power and malice of his enemies, he has at last been thrust out of the said places in his old age, and likewise fined in 500 L Sterling." He was a scholar as well as a statesman. From the description of The staggering state of Scottish statesmen : manuscr...