Ogden Daily Standard | 1907-01-17 | Page 3 | A Literary Tragedy

A carlile had fluis finished hed the first volume of 0 his bis great work on the french revolution he lent dept the manuscript to hl friend john stuart mill one evening soon afterward mill entered carlyles door pale as hectors hectora Hec tors ghost with the dismal gasped out in almost inarticulate word that with the except exception Joli of about four or five sheets the m manuscript nu script was completely annihilated mill had left it too carelessly lying aboul and a 1 servant thinking it so much ciuch waste paper had burned it five fire months of steadfast occasionally excessive and painful toll utterly lost for three weeks carlyle could do nothing but read marryatt Marr novels then ono night sitting talking to his cook ho he decided it should be written again and eventually finished such a task as I 1 never tried before or since