Skip to main content

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (historian, essayist and philosopher)

 Person

Staff Only

Dates

  • Existence: 4 December 1795 - 4 February 1881

Biography

The historian, essayist, critic and sage Thomas Carlyle was born on 4 December 1795, in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire. He was educated at the village school and then in Annan at the academy. In 1809 he began studies at Edinburgh University. Originally intended for the ministry, Carlyle had showed a keenness for mathematics, as well as studying French, Latin and Greek, and became a mathematics teacher in Annan and then in Edinburgh. In 1824 he translated Goethe's Wilhelm Meister. Other publications include Sartor Resartus (1835), the three volume The French revolution (1837), the Life and letters of Oliver Cromwell (1845), and the six volume Friedrich II (1858-1865). Carlyle's wife Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866), whom he married in 1826, was from Haddington, and was a prodigious letter writer. Thomas Carlyle died on 4 February 1881 and was buried in Ecclefechan.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Letters relating to Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (1788-1870)

 Fonds
Identifier: MS ERS T
Scope and Contents Proof copy of printed letters relating to Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (1788-1870). Contains pencil annotations instructing to "preserve", "omitt", "begin here", etc., for each letter. Contains less content than William Hanna's 1878 published edition, including letters with Thomas Chalmers, the portrait (frontispiece), the preface, and the expository writing providing context to each letter. However, some letters within this volume are omitted from the published version - including a number...
Dates: 1877-1878
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Filtered By

  • Subject: Proofreading X