Skip to main content

Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881

 Person

Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:

Letters of Thomas Carlyle to family members., 1821-1874.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14413/1
Scope and Contents

29 letters written to various family members including those to his mother, father, and brother John.

Dates: 1821-1874.

Letters of Thomas Carlyle to John Murray II, with a letter each to John Murray III and to "Mrs. Austin". Included is an article, 1985, concerning Carlyle`s "Sartor Resartus" in relation to John Murray., 1831-1850, 1985.

 File
Identifier: MS.42058
Scope and Contents Folios 1-2 : letter, 1850, of Thomas Carlyle to "Mrs. Austin"; 3-16 : letters, 1831, of Thomas Carlyle to John Murray II; 17-18 : letter, 1842, of Thomas Carlyle to John Murray III; and, 19-46 : article (folios 38v-40r), "John Murray`s reader and the rejection of `Sartor Resartus`", by Thomas Richardson. The article is in the "Carlyle Newsletter", number 6, Spring 1985. The newsletter has been inscribed by Tom Richardson to Virginia ...
Dates: 1831-1850, 1985.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Carlyle to Carmichael., 1809-1914.

 File
Identifier: MS.40196
Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Carlyle, Alexander James.Letters, 1901-1902, of Alexander James Carlyle to John Murray IV. Folios 1-18.Folio 1-3. Letter of William Ralph Inge to John Murray IV.Carlyle, John Aitken.Letter, 1830, of John Aitken Carlyle to John Murray II. Folios 19-20.Carlyle, Thomas.Letters, 1844, of Thomas Carlyle to John Murray III....
Dates: 1809-1914.

Manuscript of an incomplete work of fiction of Thomas Carlyle.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11254
Scope and Contents

Concerns a character Peter Lithgow of Drumbrash.

Dates: circa 1827.

Notebook of Thomas Carlyle, 1813-1842.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14412/1
Scope and Contents

includes notes on natural history, zoology, and mechanics.

Dates: 1813-1842.

Notebook of Thomas Carlyle titled "(my) First Notebook 1822-1830"., 1822-1830.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14412/2
Scope and Contents

Various notes on literary and philosophical matters including notes on French and German history.

Dates: 1822-1830.

Notebooks of Thomas Carlyle.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14412/1-5

Papers of Robert Herdman.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4541
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. photocopy of "Picture Book", 1870-1887, recording pictures painted by Herdman

2. notes of Herdman, on Thomas Carlyle, made while painting his portrait

3. correspondence of R Duddingstone Herdman, 1897, concerning the mounting of an exhibition.

Dates: 1870-1897.

Part of a corrected manuscript of an essay of Thomas Carlyle, "The Negro Question"., 1849

 Item
Identifier: MS.50277 folios 79-80
Scope and Contents

Manuscript concerning Carlyle’s thoughts on slavery.

Dates: 1849

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

 File
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.

Photocopies of corrected manuscripts and proofs of fragments, undated, of Thomas Carlyle, "History of Friedrich II of Prussia".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8022
Scope and Contents

With a letter, 1839, of Carlyle to James Aitken, and a letter, 1920, of Margaret Carlyle Aitken to Mary Walker.

Dates: 1839-1920 and undated.

Photocopies of correspondence and papers concerning Thomas Carlyle and his family.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11656
Scope and Contents

Includes commissions of John Welsh and letters of Edward Fitzgerald and William Graham.

Dates: 1786-1883.

Presentation note, undated, of Thomas Carlyle to Mrs Welsh (apparently torn out of a printed work).

 File
Identifier: Acc.8405
Scope and Contents

With copy of verses, 1924, of John Masefield.

Dates: 1924 and undated.

Scribal copy of letter, 1643, of Oliver Cromwell to Lawrence Crawford

 File
Identifier: Acc.5003
Scope and Contents

With annotated transcript and notes, circa 1840-circa 1845, of Thomas Carlyle.

Dates: 1643-circa 1845

Additional filters:

Type
Browse Resources 70
Archival Object 13
 
Subject
Letters. Correspondence. 58
Correspondence. 8
Notebooks. 7
Notes. 6
Photocopies. 6