Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Isabella Burns Begg, 7 June 1842
Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/04/551
- Alt. number
- 3.6146
- Date
- 7 June 1842
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Carlyle, Thomas (Author)
- Recipient
- Begg, Isabella Burns
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/04/551
- Alt. number
- 3.6146
- Date
- 7 June 1842
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Carlyle, Thomas (Author)
- Recipient
- Begg, Isabella Burns
Description
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Isabella Burns Begg, dated Chelsea, 7 June 1842.
Isabella Burns-Begg was the Poet's sister. This letter intimates that the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, has agreed to bestow upon her a small pension of twenty pounds a year, with reversion of Ten Pounds each to of her daughters, should they survive.
Archive information
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Correspondence and other documents relating to Robert Burns
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- Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Isabella Burns Begg, 7 June 1842
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