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| Creator: | Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. |
| Title: | Thomas Carlyle Letters |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1847-1861 |
| Quantity: | 1 folder (SC) |
| Abstract: | Three letters of the Scottish essayist and historian. Recipients are Charles B. Darwin, F. B. Currey, and an unknown "Dear Sir." |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era. His best known works include Sartor Resartus (1832), The French Revolution (1837), and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841).
The Thomas Carlyle Letters comprises three items of outgoing correspondence. Removed from an autograph first edition of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches in which it had been laid, the 1861 letter reads in part:
I receive with very great pleasure the little mulberry-tree box from Oliver's Environment at Huntingdon; (not from his own Garden, I fear? But we will believe, he or his Father, as lord of the manor, may have superintended the planting...) At all events, I will keep carefully the little relic; as carrying on it, beyond doubt, some reflex of the great Oliver...
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The first edition of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches from which the 1861 letter was removed resides in the library's Rare Book collections, call number DA426 .A15 1845.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Thomas Carlyle Letters,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Darwin letter, gift of Sol Feinstone.
Created by: KM
Date: Feb 1997
Revision history: 13 May 2010 - converted to EAD (MRC)
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| SC 154 | Darwin, Charles B. 17 May 1847 | ||||||||||
| SC 154 | Currey, F. B. 20 Jul 1849 [?] | ||||||||||
| SC 154 | "Dear Sir" 29 Mar 1861 | ||||||||||
