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I quite agree with you in your
estimate of Gladstone's character
but I dare say you know that!
I did not much admire Dizzy.

In a letter from England lately
a friend told me that just before
Carlyle's death a saying of his
was circulated as then said by him,
The only differ "Gladstone & Dizzy
"are the two greatest humbugs in
"England: the only difference being
"that Dizzy knows that he is a
"humbug and Gladstone doesn't

I think the Reminiscences of Carlyle
will rather puzzle the general world
as regards the tenderness of his heart
towards his wife & his father
and mother. Rugged as he was
generally he could melt at home.

However my note has come to
a natural end, so with kindest
regards I conclude

Yours ever sincerely
G W Rusden