Manuscripts
Thomas Carlyle collection
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Thomas Carlyle collection
Manuscripts
A collection containing manuscripts and correspondence related to Thomas Carlyle. The collection includes a fragment of "Frederick the Great" written by Carlyle as well as a quote "Paradise is under the shadow of our swords." The majority of the collection is correspondence to and from Carlyle; correspondents include John Aitken Carlyle, Robert Chambers, John Reuben Thompson, and Nathaniel Parker Willis. Subjects include Carlyle's works, The London Library, raising funds for Isabella Burns Begg, and social and political events. The collection also includes a small group of letters from Jane Welsh Carlyle to Henry Larkin, a friend of Thomas and Jane Carlyle and the author of the biography "Carlyle and the Open Secret of His Life" (1886).
mssCarlyle
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Thomas Bewick letters
Manuscripts
The collection consists of the correspondence of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) and his daughter, Jane Bewick (1787-1881). There are also a few other letters to and from other members of Bewick's family
mssHM 17300-17354
Thomas A. Edison in his workshop with light bulbs
Visual Materials
Thomas A. Edison in his workshop with light bulbs [with 3 variants of an Edison quote]
photCL SCE 06 - 71107
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Sir Sidney Carlyle Cockerell Papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains 55 letters from English museum curator Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) chiefly to American scholar Muriel J. Hughes (born 1903), as well as some additional letters to Hughes from Cockerell's secretary Dorothy Hawksley (1884-1970), and a few later pieces of ephemera. Cockerell to Muriel J. Hughes, whom he met through a mutual friend. Some of the letters were dictated to and written by Dorothy Hawksley for Cockerell, who signed each letter. The letters from May 1962-1965 are from Dorothy Hawksley to Muriel J. Hughes after Cockerell's death. In a few of his letters, Sir Sydney Cockerell mentions his son, Christopher, who: invented the Hovercraft. Sydney Cockerell also occasionally mentions well-known British celebrities, such as Bernard Shaw.
mssHM 63186-63262
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Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence and ephemera from and about Sir Sydney Cockerell. The recipient of these letters is Muriel J. Hughes, an American scholar who met Sir Sydney Cockerell through a mutual friend. Muriel J. Hughes corresponded with both Cockerell and later his secretary Dorothy Hawksley. The majority of the correspondence is from Sydney Cockerell to Muriel J. Hughes. Some of the letters were dictated to and written by Dorothy Hawksley for Cockerell, who signed each letter. The letters from May 1962-1965 are from Dorothy Hawksley to Muriel J. Hughes after Cockerell's death. In a few of his letters Sir Sydney Cockerell mentions his son, Christopher, who invented the Hovercraft. Sydney Cockerell also occasionally mentions British celebrities, such as Bernard Shaw.
HM 63257.