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18
Thomas Carlyle (ed. Charles Eliot Novem),
Reminiscences
(London, 1887), p.243.
19
Ibid., p.244.
20
Barbara Strachey,
The Strachey Line
, op. cit., p.113.
21
Carlyle,
Reminiscences
, op. cit., p.247.
22
Ibid., p.246.
23
Alexander Carlyle (ed.),
Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh
(London, 1909), Vol. 2, p.15.
24
Ibid., p.20.
25
Carlyle,
Reminiscences
, op. cit., p.247: ‘Mrs Strachey took to me from the first, nor ever swerved: it strikes me now, more than it then did, she silently could have liked to see “dear Kitty” and myself come together.’
26
Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh
, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.25.
27
Ibid., pp.50-1.
28
Ibid., p.235.
29
Quoted in ‘Carlyle and the “Blumine” of
Sartor Resartus
’,
Westminster Review
, CLXLII, August 1894, pp.164-5.
30
Barbara Strachey,
The Strachey Line
, op. cit., p.117.
31
In Sanders,
The Strachey Family 1588-1932
, op. cit., p.134.
32
Carlyle,
Reminiscences
, op. cit., p.248.
33
From the private archive of their descendants, letter from James Phillipps to Kitty dated only ‘Friday Night’.
34
Thomas Carlyle,
Sartor Resartus
(London, 1833-34); see Chapter 5, ‘Romance’, passim.
35
There is a considerable literature on the identity of Carlyle’s ‘Blumine’ and ‘The Rose Goddess’. See G. Strachey, ‘Carlyle and the Rose Goddess’, in
Nineteenth Century
, Vol. 32, July- December 1892, pp.470-86; J.J. Cotton, ‘Kitty Kirkpatrick’, in
Calcutta Review
, Vol. CCXVI, April 1899, pp236-48; and the follow-up in Vol. CCIXX, December 1899, J.J. Cotton, ‘Kitty Kirkpatrick and Blumine’, pp.128-35; Henry Strachey, ‘Carlyle’s First Love’,
Spectator
, CIII, 9 October 1909, pp.559-60. See also Lady Russell,
The Rose Goddess
… , op. cit., pp.1-18. Other candidates for Blumine include Margaret Gordon and Carlyle’s wife, Jane Welsh. See C.F. Harrold (ed.),
Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
(New York, 1937), pp.37-8.
36
G. Strachey, ‘Carlyle and the Rose Goddess’, op. cit.
37
Ibid.
38
Ibid., p475.
39
How he did this is unclear, and Kitty tried to find out by writing to a contact in the Hyderabad Residency. Russell did not give her the picture immediately, but later left it to her in his will, much to the annoyance of his own family. See letter of Henry Russell to William Palmer in Bodleian Library, Russell Papers, Mss Eng Letts C174, 2 October 1841, p.147. This letter contradicts the later and inaccurate account given by Lady Russell in
The Rose Goddess
… , op. cit., p.1, where Kitty is said to have first visited Swallowfield in the company of a Mrs Clive in the summer of 1846-although there may of course have been two different visits to Swallowfield.
40
Anon.,
Some Notes on the Hyderabad Residency
, op. cit., p.23.
41
See Wood, op. cit., pp.269-71.
42
De Warren, op. cit., Chapter 9.
43
Ibid., Chapter 10.
44
Ibid.
45
The best account of Palmer’s bank, and Russell’s secret involvement with it, can be found in Peter Wood’s remarkable thesis ‘Vassal State in the Shadow of Empire’, op. cit., pp.348-61. For Russell bribing the printers of the
Hyderabad Papers
see ibid., p.357. See also the good short account given in Hawes, op. cit., pp.101-9.
46
Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh, GD46/8/1, Henry Russell to Lady Hood, Hyderabad, 5 November 1813.
47
The letter is in the bound volume of Russell’s Persian correspondence in the Bodleian Library. See Chapter 7, n9, above.
48
Bodleian Library, Russell Papers, Mss Eng Letts C174, p.147, 2 October 1841, Henry Russell to William Palmer.
49
Ibid., p.154, 15 January 1842, William Palmer to Henry Russell.
50
The letter, which is undated but must presumably be 1841, survives in the private archive of their descendants. The original is in Persian, and Captain D.C. Malcolm’s slightly inaccurate translation is attached to it.
51
The correspondence survives in the private archive of Khair un-Nissa’s descendants in London. It is not numbered or referenced.
52
See Wood, op. cit., p.362n.
53
The correspondence survives in the private archive of Khair un-Nissa’s descendants in London. It is not numbered or referenced.
54
Bodleian Library, Russell Papers, Mss Eng Letts C174, p.174, 27 July 1847, William Palmer to Henry Russell.
55
Bengal Regimental Orders, IOR/P/Ben/Sec/253, Fort William, 17 December 1813, No. 39, Regimental Orders by Lt. Col. Stuart, Futtyghur, 2 July 1813. Also No. 68.
56
Gardner Papers, National Army Museum, p.206, Letter 81, Babel, 27 June 1821.
57
Saksena, op. cit., pp.100-37.
58
Parkes, op. cit., p.458.
59
Quoted in Alex Palmer’s unpublished ‘The Palmer Family’, op. cit.
60
Temple,
Journals of Hyderabad...
, op. cit., Vol. 1, p.240.
61
Quoted by Lady Russell,
The Rose Goddess
… , op. cit., p.18.
62
Edward Strachey, ‘The Romantic Marriage of James Achilles Kirkpatrick … ’ op. cit., p.29.
63
See for example p.52.
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