The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-27
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The Incident left smile on nearly every
face in the omnibus. A pleasant-faced man
sitting beside me, noticing my look of in
quiry and rightly judging my nationality,
kindly solved the mystery. MY dear sir !"
he said with almost an air of pride, hes a
brave literary man that. He wasn't born
in England, but he's the biggest man in it,
When you get back to America you can
tell the yankees you've seen old Thomas
Carlylep
never saw him again. But the London
incident of long ago made me a student of
Carlyle-one of the most difficult tasks of
my life; and from much reading after the
sturdy old barrator in philosophy and reli-
glon, many pilgrimages to his birth place,
up there in dreary Ecclefechan and to other
British localities which his strange person
atty ard genius made something like
shrines, have come to love his memory,
and especially to have an effection for the
place where FOR half life time he strug-
gled. commended. rallied, assaulted, defended,
suffered and repented in his humble and
imperial, niggardly and noble career.
That place Is Chelsea. 1t is London now.
You cannot find a break in all the great
masses of solid structures from the densest
part of the borough out to old Chelsea and
for many miles beyond. Yet the Chelsea
region is still most charmingiy distinct.
You know insensibly when you come TO it.
You feel. without being told, that you
have crossed its boundaries on
in its memories, knowing none OF its
history, if you were set down with
in it, its lovely, leefy, somnolent air has the
very spirit and hush Of lingering noble
presences. You daily and idle upon its
streets as if wo ed by the unconscious spell
of memory, as il lsggard from pleasant
companionship, as IL held by the gentle
hand of "reminiscences.
In the very heart Of this pleasantest Of all
London outer districts Thomas and Jane
Welsh Carlyle literally battled along to-
gether, from Oct. 10, 1884. until Mrs. Car
lye's sad and strange death in
in he' April. 1866. The lonely
old soul that was left remained, rather than
lived, in the same house to the end, in 1881.
Aud | somehow believe that the forty seven
years. staying of the sage Of Ecclefechan in
No. 5 Great Cheyne row has thrown more
of a poetic glamor over old Chelsea than all
the other famous and great who have come
and tarried ana gone.
Materially, Sir Thomas More originally
made Chelsea. Carlyle rounds out its fame
Vast fields of history and romance lie be-
tween. This pore house in Chelchith }" as
the ancient records speak OF the home Of
Sir Thomas More, was not SO humble an
many fine windows, dozens OF gables. "A
pretty tower, splendid gardens for
the time, and besides housing the
happiest family living in England
in the sixteenth century, was SO
attractive place, though then far away
from London, that Queen Mary was
moved to purchase it," the garrulous
Erasmus found it a hospitable retreat, and
King Henry VIII often came up the Thames
in his royal barge to deoarE and stroll 70
this first old Chelsea ma sion with his arm
lovingly around the neck of More, which
his headman's ak severed one July morn
ing little later on.
Lying along the northern bank OF the
Thames, to the west of the city, Chelsea
proper may be said to begin on the east at