Browse by Records Creators

Carlyle, Thomas, (1795-1881), historian, essayist and philosopher

This page summarises records created by this Person

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Surname: Carlyle
Forenames: Thomas
Gender: Male
Date: 1795-1881
Biography: ODNB link for Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881), historian, essayist and philosopher
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P157520 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P4915 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Thomas Carlyle
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
manuscripts, proofs, letters
National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum
NRA 38887 Forster

See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
2
1854-67: MS of the essay Prinzebraub
London University: Senate House Library
3
1838-70: misc corresp
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
4
c1812-81: corresp and papers
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
See HMC Papers of British antiquaries and historians, 2003
5
1822-79: family corresp and papers
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
6
pocket books
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
7
1809-1927: letters and papers
Duke University: William R Perkins Library
See Guide 1980 p86
8
1835-74: corresp (116 items), literary MSS and papers
Huntington Library
See Guide to Literary MSS 1979
9
1825-70: corresp and papers (c110 items)
The Morgan Library
See NUC MS 84-2141
10
1832-68: family corresp
University of Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories 1975
11
literary corresp and papers, German travel journal 1858
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
12
1839-1920: letters and corrected proofs by and about him
Dumfries and Galloway Archives
See Annual Return 2010
13
letters
Edinburgh Central Library
NRA 17573 Edinburgh Pub L
14
1840-73: letters (23)
London Library
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
15
1814-81: corresp with Alexander Carlyle etc
McMaster University Library
See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories , suppl 1976
16
1819-56: letters (41) to his brother Alexander
McMaster University Library
See Nat L of Scotland Annual Report, 1983-84
17
1850-c1880: letters to William Allingham
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
18
c1840-77: letters to the Baring family
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
NRA 24219 Baring
19
1857-61: letters (16) to Charles Butler
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
20
letters (27) to Alfred Deakin
National Library of Australia
NRA 25702
21
1846-54: letters (18) to Charles Gavan Duffy
National Library of Ireland
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
22
corresp with Ralph Waldo Emerson (106 items)
Harvard University: Houghton Library
See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
23
1842-46: corresp (12 items) with Edward Fitzgerald
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
24
1839-75: letters (209) to John Forster
National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum
NRA 38887 Forster
25
1851-71: letters to Sir Arthur Helps
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
26
1840-54: letters to David Hope
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
See Annual Report 1988-89 p13
27
1874-75: letters to Robert Horn
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
28
1818-66: letters to Lord Houghton
Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
See HMC corresp file 19.2.87
29
1840-49: corresp with Geraldine Jewsbury (11 items)
National Library of New Zealand: Alexander Turnbull Library
See National Register of Archives and MSS in New Zealand B65
30
1817-25: letters (20) to J Johnstone
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
31
1841-74: letters (40) to David Laing
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
32
1847-71: letters to James Marshall
British Library, Manuscript Collections
33
1814-42: corresp (35 items) with Robert Mitchell and family
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
NRA 19245 Carlyle
34
1813-65: letters to Thomas Murray
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
35
1830-41: letters to Macvey Napier
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
36
corresp (14 letters) with John Ruskin
Ruskin Library
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
37
1855-1874: letters to John Ruskin (7) and John James Ruskin (1)
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
38
1848-77: letters, as sponsor, to the Royal Literary Fund
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
39
1850-62: letters to Lady Sandwich
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
40
1874: letters to Mr and Mrs R Smith
British Library, Manuscript Collections
41
corresp with Thomas Spedding
Mirehouse
See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
42
1841-73: (copies) letters (42) to Henrietta Maria, Lady Stanley of Alderley
British Library, Manuscript Collections
43
1848-74: letters (9) to Sir William Stirling-Maxwell
Glasgow City Archives
NRA 24669 Stirling
44
1838-58: letters (18) to Sir Edward Strachey
Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
NRA 8898 Strachey
45
letters to John Swinton
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRA 10561
46
corresp with John Tyndall
Royal Institution of Great Britain
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
47
1816: misc papers re Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy Art Gallery and Museum
NRA 18847 Kirkcaldy Mus
48
1817-71: letters
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
See Accessions to Repositories 1991
49
1819-78: letters and family letters (39)
Hornel Library
NRA 10173 Hornel Library

See NRA(S)0118
50
1820-1853: letters (24)
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
51
1836-62: corresp (copies)
British Library, Manuscript Collections
52
letters (150)
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
See Hilles Bequest
53
letters (21) and literary MSS (4)
Harvard University: Houghton Library
See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
54
1861: letter to George Lewes
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
See Annual Return 2019
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F63355
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
crawl=CC-MAIN-2022-21
101391
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:PFTE2YMUCHPF4RVHMTTZUE6RHRCX7OWK
<urn:uuid:fa3bafc4-49b4-4219-8846-dd643020e45b>
2022-05-25T20:55:37Z
137.221.134.136
text/html
sha1:MJB3NWFZH4UNJJFL4OQPPXCUH24ACRIO
<urn:uuid:d6e23472-a161-4609-a76a-05c85a892113>
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F63355
response
<urn:uuid:6be4aacf-fbb5-45ef-8b65-e09957db7b9b>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-21
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for May 2022
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-22
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.3-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/