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Thomas Carlyle collection. Second accrual. -- 1866-1968. -- 12 cm of textual records and graphic materials. Box 4: F. 1 Thomas Carlyle's diary, 1877. Pocket format diary with regular, handwritten entries, photocopy, 84 p. F. 2 Thomas Carlyle's diary, 1878. Pocket format diary with regular, handwritten entries, photocopy, 67 p. F. 3 Thomas Carlyle's diary, 1879. Pocket format diary with regular, handwritten entries, photocopy, 69 p. F. 4 Thomas Carlyle's notebook. Entries include farm accounts, poems, notes on Greek and Latin and religious texts. Many of the entries are dated, with the dates ranging between 1888 and 1919. F. 5 3 envelopes (only) addressed to Alexander Carlyle at Bield, near Brantford, Canada West. [From J.A. Carlyle?]. All are from Dumfries, Scotland and are postmarked 1866. F. 6 Letter (HLs) to Thomas Carlyle from (his uncle) J.A Carlyle, 14 September 1876, 4 p. F. 7 Will of John Aitken Carlyle ("Uncle 'The Doctor"'), made in 1870 and copied in 1880, with covering letter (1880) and envelope (not the original? Dated 1899). F. 8 Letter (HLs) to Thomas Carlyle from (his brother) Alexander Carlyle, 11 June 1881 (regarding Froude's claim to Carlyle's papers), 8 p. F. 9 "Abstract of the case of Mary Carlyle" (ca.1881, after May 9). Statement regarding the dispute with Froude over the Carlyle papers (originally included with the letter above?), 9 p., and envelope. F. 10 Letter (HLs) from Tisdale and Co., barristers, to Thomas Carlyle, August 5 1882, 1 p. F. 11 Executorship account of Thomas Carlyle Esq., deceased (this is the elder Thomas Carlyle), compiled after Apri11882, accompanied by a lawyer's letter (HLs), 22 June 1882, to Thomas Carlyle (the nephew), 81eaves and 2 p. F. 12 "To a Boy who fell when walking on ice", verse by Thomas Carlyle (HMs), dated February 20 1883 and initialed, 1 p.
F. 13 Fragment of a letter (HL) from a correspondent in Brandon [to Thomas Carlyle?], dated December 8 1895, 4 p. (bottom half lacking). F. 14 Letter (HLs) from (brother) Alick Carlyle to Thomas Carlyle, dated 14 January 1903, (regarding a book of Carlyle letters which "will be gall and wormwood to the Froudites"), 8 p.
F. 15 Letter (HLs) to "My dear Uncle" from Alfred Apps, dated May 6 1921, (regarding the death of Thomas Carlyle), 1 p.
F. 16 Letter (HLs) to "My dear Brother" [Thomas Carlyle?] from Margaret].C. Marrs, dated 6 February 1921, 4 p. F. 17 "Mr. Alexander Carlyle's Trust. Memorandum regarding the division of the Legacy", 4 p. Alexander Carlyle, brother of Thomas, died on 30 November 1931. Envelope is addressed to Tom Carlyle and postmarked 1932. F. 18 Obituaries of Thomas Carlyle, May [1921]. 2 clippings and one duplicate. F. 19 Obituary of Alexander Carlyle, brother of Thomas, [1931]. 1 clipping. F. 20 Obituary of John Aitken Carlyle, brother of Thomas [between 1921 and 1931]. 1 clipping. F. 21 Obituary of Robert C. Carlyle, brother of Thomas, [1931]. 1 clipping.
F. 22 Letter (TLs) to Mrs. Ernest Clump from Edwin Marrs (regarding the Carlyle book), dated November 1, 1968. F. 23 Printed invitation to Thomas Carlyle from the Lord Mayor of London for a meeting in support of the Carlyle's House (Chelsea) Purchase Fund, to be held on February 22 1895. 1 printed card. Also reply slip. F. 24 Receipt for donation to Carlyle House Purchase Fund, dated 5 January 1895, with envelope. F. 25 Two pamphlets: Carlyle's House (Chelsea) Purchase Fund ...Meeting at the Mansion House on Friday, February 22,1895 and Carlyle's House Catalogue, 1897. F. 26 Pamphlet: Essay on Bums by Thomas Carlyle, 1896, with clipping showing photograph of Burns. F. 27 Pamphlet: The Life of Thomas Carlyle [1881], and clipping of an article reviewing The New Letters of Thomas Carlyle, from The British Weekly, Apri121 1904. F. 28 Pamphlets published by the Carlyle Society: Committee' s Report of Carlyle' s View of the Right of Government, January 1882, also 2 undated "Extracts", Carlyle on the Suffrage and Carlyle on Heredity. F. 29 Issue of The Reliquary, July 1875. F. 30 Photograph of Carlyle at the back door of No. 5, Cheyne Row, Chelsea, 20 July, 1857. Annotated by Thomas Carlyle (nephew). F. 31 Photograph of Carlyle writing in the shade of back wall, July 1857. Annotated by Thomas Carlyle (nephew).
F. 32 Photograph (framed) of Carlyle with Mary Aitken Carlyle, 1874. [This photograph and F. 30 above are reproduced in Simon Heffer, Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle, London, 1995. The date of this photograph has been taken from that source]. F. 33 Photograph of Carlyle's birthplace, annotated by Carlyle, 5 July 1871. Both the original photograph and the annotation have been re-photographed in this print. F. 34 Photograph of the house and street where Carlyle was born, undated. F. 35 Photograph of J.A. Carlyle "Looking somewhat painfully against the light". Signed and dated 1888. F. 36 Photograph of Carlyle family [?] grave marker. The mount has been stamped by Park and Co., Brantford, Ontario. Undated. F. 37 An engraving of Oliver Cromwell and a clipping of Cromwell. F. 38 Oddments found in the books received with this accrual including a postcard from Beatrice to Lily (Box 240, Brantford), undated; a card with the name Miss Margaret Carlyle handwritten, cutting about Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, bookmarks and a piece of pressed heather [?]
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