BIB_ID
286177
Accession number
MA 1080.1-38
Display Date
1816 Oct. 22-1851 July 17.
Credit line
Purchased, 1929.
Description
1 box (38 items), unbound : ill. (port.) ; size varies
Notes
Many letters with address, postmark, and seal.
Provenance
Purchased from E.D. North, 1929.
Summary
Collection includes three letters from Thomas Carlyle's father, James Carlyle (MA 1080.2-3 and .6); five letters from his brother, Alexander "Alick" Carlyle (MA 1080.4-5, .7, .14, and .17); twenty letters from his brother, John Aitken "Jack" Carlyle (MA 1080.8, .11-13, .16, .19-29, .31, .33-34, and .36, including one letter from J.A. Carlyle to their mother, Margaret Aitken Carlyle, MA 1080.25); one letter from his sister, Mary Carlyle Austin (MA 1080.18); two letters from his sister, Jean Carlyle Aitken (MA 1080.15 and .30); one letter from his sister, Janet Carlyle Hanning (MA 1080.35); one letter from a school friend named Robert Mitchell (MA 1080.1); two letters from Julia Kirkpatrick Strachey (MA 1080.9-10); one letter from Sir Henry Cole (MA 1080.32); one letter from George L. Craik (MA 1080.37); and a photograph of Carlyle taken by an unknown photographer. Items are described in 38 individual records; see MA 1080.1-38 for more details.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (40.5 cm)
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