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On the Erection of a Statue in Honor of Oliver Cromwell: an essay

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    Thomas Carlyle letters to Chapman and Hall; with manuscripts and portraits

    Manuscripts

    Includes letters by Jane Welsh Carlyle.

    mssHM 34580-34608

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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 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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    A Rain Dream: a poem

    Manuscripts

    Also includes a letter to William James Stillman, December 4, 1854 (mssHM 24381).

    mssHM 2568

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    Manuscript of excerpt from "Crawford's Statues at Richmond" poem

    Manuscripts

    Formerly bound with manuscripts of other American poets. Consult mssHM 1216-1246 for table of contents with additional notes. Also includes a print of Howe's likeness.

    mssHM 1241

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    The Lay of St. Medard. Golden Legends No. VII. By Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq

    Manuscripts

    An autograph manuscript by Richard Harris Barham. The volume also contains other manuscripts, engravings, and letters; with the bookplate of Frederick Locker. The volume also contains a letter from Barham to My dear Madam (mssHM 14391); a motto in the handwriting of Barham (mssHM 14392); The Lay of St. Medard, with a copy of a letter from George Bentley (mssHM 14393); George Cruikshank's rough pencil sketch for the Legend of St. Mendard (mssHM 14394); an autograph letter by George Cruikshank to Frederick Locker (mssHM 14395); and two printed engravings of Barham by Richard Bentley.

    mssHM 14391-14395