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MSS.2884-2888 and several letters in MS.2883 (indicated under that number) formed part of a collection of material relating to Thomas Carlyle, formed, at least in part, by Frederick Martin, a copyist employed by Carlyle, who commenced a biography of Carlyle in the ‘Biographical Magazine’, 1877.

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The letters (in continuation of MSS.519-534) cover the period of the composition of ‘Frederick the Great’, for which Joseph Neuberg acted as Thomas Carlyle’s voluntary secretary.

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The letters are in continuation of MSS.610-617. Seven of the letters are copies.

Scope and Contents The contents concern the following:Membership of the Gesellschaft für in- und ausländische schöne Literatur in Berlin, 1830, 1835 (folio 1); of the Orden der Wachsamkeit, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1859 (folio 7); of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1866 (folio 16); and of the Prussian order, Pour le Mérite, 1874 (folio 18); with a letter forwarding an article published in the ‘Deutscher Reichs- und Königlich-Preussischer Staats-Anzeiger’ in honour of Thomas Carlyle's birthday, 1875...

Scope and Contents These letters are in continuation of MS.568.Included are letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1835, 1839-1840, John Sterling, 1843, Dr John Aitken Carlyle, 1843-1844, 1853, 1864, undated, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, 1844, 1853, Varnhagen von Ense, 1845, two Ladies Ashburton, 1849, 1856, 1864, Lady Sandwich, 1859, Professor George Lillie Craik, 1859, Lord de Grey, 1860, Richard Monkton Milnes, 1860, Jean Carlyle Aitken, 1861, Carlyle’s sister Mary Austin, undated, Geraldine Jewsbury, 1865,...

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Included are letters to Jane Welsh Carlyle and to Mary Aitken, Thomas Carlyle’s niece, afterwards wife of the donor, Alexander Carlyle.

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The letters of Thomas Carlyle include one to his mother and four to his wife; others are to Alexander Baring (Baron Ashburton) and members of his family, John Ruskin, George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and Sir John Murray Nasmyth.

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There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.

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Also included are a joint letter of Thomas and Jane Carlyle to Carlyle’s mother, 1831, and letters of Lady Harriet Baring, 1848, John Stuart Mill, 1858, and Émile Montégut, 1865.

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The writers include Althaus, Thomas Arnold, Dickens, Varnhagen von Ense, Governor Eyre, Froude, Leigh Hunt, Mazzini, Leopold von Orlitz, Thackeray, and Turgenev.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Correspondence, 1802-1815, undated, of and concerning R B Sheridan (including letters of Sir John Macpherson and Samuel Whitbread, and material on the Drury Lane Theatre) and his son Thomas (including descriptions of a journey to Edinburgh and of Madeira); a poem, 1772, of Sheridan to his future wife; and various notes and press cuttings, 1788-1914, undated, on Sheridan and his works (folio 1); (ii) Letters, 1922-1928, of Sir James G Frazer to William...

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The letters are in continuation of MSS.555-556.

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The letters are in continuation of MS.618.