SMOKED HIS PIPE
CARLYLE AND HIS NEIGHBOURS
Thomas Carlyle smoked cheap elay pipes, and it is said that he never cleaned them. Sir Edmund Hornby in his autobiography told the story of his first encounter with Carlyle. Mi- Chalmers, an old friend of his father, lived at No. 4 Cheyne Chelsea, next door to Carlyle, whm occupied No. 5. Carlyle often sat and smoked in his back garden, and the fumes from his pipe greeted the nostrils of his neighbour, who hated tobacco. After the exchange of some angry correspondence between the two Inhighbours on the subject o£ '.moking and other nuisances, such as piano playing by Chalmers’s daughters, Hornby was commissioned ,y his father’s friend to interview 'arlyle, and see if some compromise ’ould be arranged. He succeeded in fixing up a truce by which Carlyle undertook to smoke his pipe as far away as possible from the windows £ No. 4 if the Misses Chalmers removed their .piano to a room as far away as possible from No. 5.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 61, Issue 4341, 4 October 1940, Page 2
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