Concerning his "thanks for the delights you promise me through the [Monthly] repository"; acts as the magazine's "town crier"; requests answer to "What is friendship?" Death of his son; their new picture gallery; sends manuscript which is based on...
Concerning his request for a contribution to the first no. of Leigh Hunt's Journal, on any subject "not actually opposed to us and our pacifics", and his wish that the articles be under one head, of Carlyle's own choosing.