The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle

FAIN: RQ-260718-18

Duke University (Durham, NC 27705-4677)
David R. Sorensen (Project Director: November 2017 to April 2025)

The preparation for print publication of volumes 46, 47, and 48 of the Collected Letters of English author Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866), and publication of volumes 45-47 in an existing online archive. (36 months)

With its first volumes published in 1970, the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas (TC) and Jane Welsh Carlyle (JWC) is regarded by biographers, historians, critics, students, and general readers as one of the finest and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century. Forty-five volumes have been published to date in book form by Duke University Press, and the first 43 volumes have been published in The Carlyle Letters Online (http://carlyleletters.dukeupress.edu/), with volume 44 having been encoded and now in the process of final editing, to be added to the site early in 2018. This ongoing digital project, of 16 years to date, brings access to the Carlyles and their times to an increasing global audience, with well over a million downloads of full-page text to users from more than 180 nations. The online edition of the Carlyles’ letters is regarded as a pioneering model in the growing field of digital humanities.