[18]. Quoted in Mr. Froude’s article, “The Early Life of Carlyle,” in the Nineteenth Century for July 1881.
[19]. Mrs. Oliphant’s Life of Irving (1862), i. 90, 91.
[20]. My impression now is that it was this autumn of 1819 in his father’s house that Carlyle had in his mind when he talked to me once of the remembered pleasures of certain early mornings in the Dumfriesshire hill-country. The chief was when, after a saunter out of doors among the sights and sounds of newly awakened nature, he would return to the fragrant tea that was ready for him at home. No cups of tea he had ever tasted in his life seemed so fragrant and so delicious as those his mother had ready for him after his walks in those old Dumfriesshire mornings.
[21]. But for the phrase “Hume’s Lectures once done with, I flung the thing away for ever,” quoted by Mr. Froude as from “a note somewhere,” I should, on the evidence of handwriting, etc., have decided unhesitatingly for the second and more extensive of the two hypotheses.—The attendance on the Chemistry Class, which would become a fact if that hypothesis were correct, would be of some independent interest. With Carlyle’s turn for science at that time, it was not unlikely. I may add that, from talks with him, I have an impression that, some time or other, he must have attended Professor Jameson’s class of Natural History. He had certainly heard Jameson lecture pretty frequently; for he described Jameson’s lecturing humorously and to the life, the favourite topic of his recollection being Jameson’s discourse on the order Glires in the Linnæan Zoology. Though I have looked over the Matriculation Lists and also the preserved class-lists pretty carefully from 1809 to 1824, it is just possible that Carlyle’s name in one of Jameson’s class-lists within that range of time may have escaped me. The only other Professor, not already mentioned in the text, that I remember to have heard him talk of was Dr. Andrew Brown, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres; but him he knew, I think, only by occasional dropping in at his lectures.
[22]. Carlyle to a correspondent, in one of Mr. Ireland’s copies of letters: Conway, p. 178.
[23]. Ditto, ibid. p. 180.
[24]. Ditto, ibid. pp. 201, 202.
[25]. Carlyle to his brother John, quoted in Mr. Froude’s Article.
[26]. Reminiscences, ii. 16, 11.
[27]. Quoted at p. 57 of Mr. William Howie Wylie’s excellent volume entitled Carlyle: The Man and His Books.