Content:
This manuscript is a draft of the essay "The Dead Carlyle" printed in the
Literary World
on February 12, 1881 and,
with the slightly different title of "The Death of Carlyle" in the
Critic
, on February 12, 1881. Parts of the essay were used for
"Death of Thomas Carlyle"
published in
Specimen Days
in
1882 (later retained in the
Complete Prose Works
, published in 1892).
