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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 63 Collections and/or Records:

13 letters of Thomas Carlyle to David Hope.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9654
Scope and Contents

With associated letters of J A Carlyle and Mary Carlyle Aitken, and others concerning the Hope family.

Dates: 1820-1854.

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

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Identifier: Acc.10582
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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.

Draft letter of John Ruskin to Thomas Carlyle.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7553
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On their disagreement.

Dates: ? 1866.

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

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7864
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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.

Four letters, 1849-1857, of Thomas Carlyle to Thomas Watts.

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Identifier: Acc.6833
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Concerning literary research in the British Museum and David Irving.

With letter, 1961, of John Aitken Carlyle to Jane.

Dates: 1849-1861.

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, 1835, of Thomas Carlyle to James Fraser.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6430
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Concerning the destruction of his manuscript of "The French Revolution".

With portrait, 1825, of Carlyle by Daniel Maclise, and a copy of Cardinal Newman, "Lead, Kindly Light" (1872).

Dates: 1825, 1835 and 1872.

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

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11476
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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
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Concerns Thomas Carlyle`s behaviour.

Dates: circa 1820-1866.

Letter of Jane Welsh Carlyle to the Marchioness of Lothian.

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Identifier: Acc.11437
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Concerns her own health and her husband`s reactions to a visit to the Lothians.

Dates: circa 1820-1866.

Letter of John Ruskin to Thomas Carlyle.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7700
Scope and Contents

On the writer`s father`s death.

Dates: ? 1864.

Letter of Thomas Carlyle.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9774
Scope and Contents

Concerns his history, "The French Revolution".

Dates: 1837.

Letter of Thomas Carlyle probably to William Strange.

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Identifier: Acc.11135
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Concerns the translation of "Historie de l`Empereur Napoléon" of P M Laurent, called l`Ardeche.

Dates: 1839.

Letter of Thomas Carlyle to General Sir William Gomm on the Franco-Prussian War and the situation in Turkey.

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Identifier: Acc.13005
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With two draft letters of Wiliam Gomm to Thomas Carlyle, and one letter of Lady Geraldine Somerset to Lady Elizabeth Gomm.

Dates: 1870.