CARLYLE'S SOUNDPROOF ROOM
Brand Whillock said in an address in Washington: "We writers live too restricted live-?. You know the story of Cartyle and his sound-proof room in Chelsea. Carlvlo had ■ Imilt a soundproof room for himself on the top of his house. , The room hint no windows, l>ut only a skylight for illuminnting purpose?. To an elderly visitor from Uragenput tuck the room was shown proudly by Carlyle, and the visitor said: '.My conscience, this is tine! Uoro ye may wrilo and study all the rest, of yer life, and nobody Ijo a hit Hie wiser.'"
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 275, 16 August 1919, Page 7
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97CARLYLE'S SOUNDPROOF ROOM Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 275, 16 August 1919, Page 7
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