BIB_ID
81459
Accession number
MA 741.1-68
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
1840-1872.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 v. (68 items), bound ; 30.3 cm
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. Volume assembled in 1924.
Summary
This collection includes 54 autograph letters signed, 7 signed receipts, a letter written for Carlyle by his niece Mary, Carlyle's notes on a printed version of one of his translations of Goethe (1 p.), 4 prints, and a photograph. There are also calligraphic title pages dividing the letters into groups: "letters to his brother James," "letters to W.D. Christie concerning the London Library," "letters to his publishers," and "letters to various friends." Items are described separately in 68 records (MA 741.1-68).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (33.5 cm)
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