Welcome to the Carlyle Letters Online

Duke University Press and Western Carolina University’s Hunter Library are proud to present this digital archive based on the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, one of the great scholarly achievements of the 20th and 21st centuries. To learn more about the history and development of both projects, please read The Online Project and The Printed Edition.

A Database for an Epoch

Here you will find a perspective on the 19th century like no other, through the words of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Browse thousands of their collected letters by date, by recipient, by subject, and by volume. We invite you to experience a correspondence that features some of the most influential writers and thinkers of the day.

CLO News

The editors and developers of the CLO are very pleased to announce the new virtual home of the Carlyle Letters Project at Western Carolina University.