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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 3 Collections and/or Records:

13 letters of Thomas Carlyle to David Hope.

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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.

Letters of Jane Carlyle Aitken, four of her daughter, Mary, and others of the Carlyle family.

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Identifier: Acc.6267
Scope and Contents

With a copy of "The Saints` Everlasting Rest (1833), inscribed by Thomas Carlyle, and an engraved portrait of him.

Dates: 1833, 1858-? 1866, and undated.

Photocopies of a letter, 1870, of R W Emerson to the President of Harvard.

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Identifier: Acc.7928
Scope and Contents

Concerning Thomas Carlyle`s intended bequest of books to Harvard College.

With a catalogue, undated, of the library in the Land of Mary Aitken.

Dates: 1870 and undated.