The Carlyle Letters

The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Duke-Edinburgh edition (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1970 to the present) is one of the major editorial projects in Victorian studies of the last half-century.

These are the Edinburgh editors of the Carlyle Letters together with some selected publications.

The Advisory Group, introduced in 2009, gives formal project and financial management for the Carlyle Letters in Edinburgh.

Charles Richard Sanders of Duke University began the edition of the Carlyle Letters during the 1950s with a wide-ranging search for surviving manuscript letters, the number of which now exceeds 10,000.

The 2012 conference celebrated the publication of 40 volumes of the Duke-Edinburgh edition of 'The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle'. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2012.

The Carlyle Society celebrates the work and life of Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish essayist and historian, born in Ecclefechan, and Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866) letter writer, born in Haddington.

The print volumes of the Carlyle Letters are the basis of the electronic The Carlyle Letters Online, a major new resource launched in 2007 by Duke University Press.

The Edinburgh editors of the Carlyle Letters can be contacted by phone, post or email:

Here are details of Carlyle Conferences and public lectures from previous years.