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Letters. Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Pieces of correspondence that are somewhat more formal than memoranda or notes, usually on paper and delivered.

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Agreement between Domenico Ronca and Thomas Carlyle and receipt of Ronca to Carlyle.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10582
Scope and Contents

Agreement and receipt concern the keeping of fowl at 6 Cheyne Row.

With letter of Jane W Carlyle to John A Carlyle concerning the building of a client room by Thomas Carlyle.

Dates: 1853.

Correspondence between Jane Welsh Carlyle and John Carlyle., 1825-1863.

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Identifier: Acc.14413/4
Scope and Contents

2 Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle to John Carlyle and 10 letters of John to Jane, 1825-1826. The file includes 2 letters of Jane to Mrs Oliphant, 1861-1863.

Dates: 1825-1863.

Diary of Jane Welsh Carlyle., 1855-1856; 1876.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14413/9
Scope and Contents

Several original letters and cuttings inserted within the volume including a letter by G. E. Jewsbury to J. A. Froude, 1876.

Dates: 1855-1856; 1876.

Eight letters (some incomplete), 1832-1863, of Thomas Carlyle to his brother, James.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7864
Scope and Contents

With 29 letters (some incomplete), 1859-1862 and undated, of Jane Welsh Carlyle to amongst others, James Carlyle and Mary Austin.

With transcriptions.

Dates: 1832-1863 and undated.

Five letters, ? 1849-1865, of Jane Welsh Carlyle to John Riddle Stodart.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7012
Scope and Contents

Mostly on personal matters.

Single letters, 1818, 1867, of Mrs Welsh (Jane`s mother) and Susan Stirling both to Stodart.

Dates: 1818-1867.

Four letters, 1823 and undated, of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and two letters, 1838 and undated, of Grace Welsh to Isabella McTurk.

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Identifier: Acc.12039
Scope and Contents

Includes:

1. verses, 1832 and undated, in various hands;

2. riddles and verses, circa 1828, given by Jane Welsh Carlyle to Isabella McTurk.

Dates: 1823-1838.

Four letters, [1823], and undated, of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and two letters, 1838, and undated, of Grace Welsh, to Isabella McTurk, mainly concerning personal matters.

 File
Identifier: Dep.295- is now Acc.12039.
Scope and Contents

Includes:

1. verses, 1832 and undated, in various hands;

2. riddles and verses, circa 1828, given by Jane Welsh Carlyle to Isabella McTurk.

Dates: [1823]-1838, and undated.

Letter, 1832, of Thomas Carlyle to Allan Cunningham.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11477
Scope and Contents

Carlyle praises and analyses Cunningham`s poem "The Maid of Elvar" and obliquely criticises the poetry of Sir Walter Scott.

Includes engravings and photographs of Carlyle, Carlyle-related locations, and one of Jane Welsh Carlyle inscribed by Thomas Carlyle in 1873.

Dates: 1832-1873.

Letter of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Catherine Hunter.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9185
Scope and Contents

With a photograph of Carlyle and three other Welsh family letters.

Dates: circa 1850-1865.

Letter of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Jane Stirling.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9227
Scope and Contents

Concerns a concert by Chopin, with verses by Miss Stirling`s brother.

Dates: 1848.

Letter of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Mrs Gilchrist (probably Anne Gilchrist).

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Identifier: Acc.11476
Scope and Contents

Mrs Carlyle describes a holiday in Aberdour, Fife, and the behaviour of her husband and their dog, Nero.

Dates: circa 1856-1866.

Letter of Jane Welsh Carlyle to the Marchioness of Lothian.

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Identifier: Acc.11436
Scope and Contents

Concerns Thomas Carlyle`s behaviour.

Dates: circa 1820-1866.

Letter of Jane Welsh Carlyle to the Marchioness of Lothian.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11437
Scope and Contents

Concerns her own health and her husband`s reactions to a visit to the Lothians.

Dates: circa 1820-1866.

Letter, undated, of Jane Welsh Carlyle.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9363
Scope and Contents

With two letters, 1868, of Jane Carlyle Aitken.

Dates: 1868 and undated.

Letters of Harriet Martineau to Jane Welsh Carlyle., 1842-1850.

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Identifier: Acc.14413/10
Scope and Contents

18 letters are from Martineau to Carlyle, one letter is from Martineau to Thomas Carlyle.

Dates: 1842-1850.

Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Helen Welsh., 1841-1858.

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Identifier: MS.42057
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates: 1841-1858.

Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle to her family., 1817-1865.

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Identifier: Acc.14413/3
Scope and Contents 21 letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle to her mother, Grace Welsh, to her father, John Welsh, to Mrs Oliphant, Mrs Russell, and to her uncle. Also included are 4 letters of her father, including one to Jane, and 10 letters to John Welsh from various correspondents. There are 8 further family letters and papers, including a copy of a letter by Colonel Davidson to Thomas Carlyle on the death of John Welsh annotated by Carlyle in blue pencil; a later copy of Jane's will with envelope inscribed by...
Dates: 1817-1865.

Letters of Thomas Carlyle mostly to his family., 1836-1878.

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Identifier: Acc.14413/2
Scope and Contents File includes a group of 33 letters of Thomas Carlyle to family members, mostly his siblings, and especially his sister Jean. 2 letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, one to her mother-in-law Margaret and one to John Stirling. Also included are 9 letters of Lady Louisa Ashburton mostly to Thomas Carlyle and 11 letters of William Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton to Thomas Carlyle. There are also 12 letters to the Carlyles from G. O. Trevelyan, Robert Browning and Leigh Hunt, together with related...
Dates: 1836-1878.