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Scope	manuscripts, proofs, letters
Repository	National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum
Record Reference	Forster Collection
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 38887 Forster
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1854-67: MS of the essay Prinzebraub
Repository	London University: Senate House Library
Record Reference	SL V 10 link to online catalogue
Scope	1838-70: misc corresp
Repository	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	MSS 7516, 7178, 7197 Passim
Scope	c1812-81: corresp and papers
Repository	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	MSS 511-656 passim; 787; 1763-1808 passim; 7197
Other reference	see HMC Papers of British antiquaries and historians, 2003
Scope	1822-79: family corresp and papers
Repository	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Acc.9086 link to online catalogue
Scope	pocket books
Repository	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Western Manuscripts
Record Reference	MS Don d 53
Scope	1809-1927: letters and papers
Repository	Duke University: William R Perkins Library
Other reference	see Guide 1980 p86
Scope	1835-74: corresp (116 items), literary MSS and papers
Repository	Huntington Library
Other reference	see Guide to Literary MSS 1979
Scope	1825-70: corresp and papers (c110 items)
Repository	The Morgan Library
Other reference	see NUC MS 84-2141
Scope	1832-68: family corresp
Repository	University of Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Other reference	see Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories 1975
Scope	literary corresp and papers, German travel journal 1858
Repository	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
Other reference	see Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
Scope	1839-1920: letters and corrected proofs by and about him
Repository	Dumfries and Galloway Archives
Record Reference	GGD699
Other reference	see Annual Return 2010
Scope	letters
Repository	Edinburgh Central Library
Record Reference	NRA(S)0870
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 17573 Edinburgh Pub L
Scope	1840-73: letters (23)
Repository	London Library
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1814-81: corresp with Alexander Carlyle etc
Repository	McMaster University Library
Other reference	see Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories , suppl 1976
Scope	1819-56: letters (41) to his brother Alexander
Repository	McMaster University Library
Other reference	see Nat L of Scotland Annual report, 1983-84
Scope	1850-c1880: letters to William Allingham
Repository	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	MS.3823 link to online catalogue
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	c1840-77: letters to the Baring family
Repository	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Acc.11388 link to online catalogue
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 24219 Baring
Scope	1857-61: letters (16) to Charles Butler
Repository	Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Record Reference	Coll/128 link to online catalogue
Scope	letters (27) to Alfred Deakin
Repository	National Library of Australia
Record Reference	MS 1540 link to online catalogue
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 25702
Scope	1846-54: letters (18) to Charles Gavan Duffy
Repository	National Library of Ireland
Record Reference	Mss.5756-5757
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	corresp with Ralph Waldo Emerson (106 items)
Repository	Harvard University: Houghton Library
Other reference	see Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
Scope	1842-46: corresp (12 items) with Edward Fitzgerald
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Record Reference	Add 7062
Scope	1839-75: letters (209) to John Forster
Repository	National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum
Record Reference	Forster Collection
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 38887 Forster
Scope	1851-71: letters to Sir Arthur Helps
Repository	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	MS.3823 ff.199-223 link to online catalogue
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1840-54: letters to David Hope
Repository	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Other reference	see Annual report 1988-89 p13
Scope	1874-75: letters to Robert Horn
Repository	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	MS.3706 link to online catalogue
Scope	1818-66: letters to Lord Houghton
Repository	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
Other reference	see HMC corresp file 19.2.87
Scope	1840-49: corresp with Geraldine Jewsbury (11 items)
Repository	National Library of New Zealand: Alexander Turnbull Library
Record Reference	MS Papers 544
Other reference	see National Register of Archives and MSS in New Zealand B65
Scope	1817-25: letters (20) to J Johnstone
Repository	Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Record Reference	Coll/128 link to online catalogue
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1841-74: letters (40) to David Laing
Repository	Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Record Reference	La iv 4
Scope	1847-71: letters to James Marshall
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Eg MS 3032
Scope	1814-42: corresp (35 items) with Robert Mitchell and family
Repository	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
Record Reference	GD1/714 link to online catalogue
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 19245 Carlyle
Scope	1813-65: letters to Thomas Murray
Repository	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	MS.8992 link to online catalogue
Scope	1830-41: letters to Macvey Napier
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Add.MSS.34614-34615, 34621-34622 passim
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	corresp (14 letters) with John Ruskin
Repository	Ruskin Library
Record Reference	BXIV
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1855-74: letters to John Ruskin (7) and John James Ruskin (1)
Repository	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
Record Reference	MS 1191 link to online catalogue
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1848-77: letters, as sponsor, to the Royal Literary Fund
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Loan no.96
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1850-62: letters to Lady Sandwich
Repository	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Adv MS 19 3 52
Scope	1874: letters to Mr and Mrs R Smith
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Add MS 44885A
Scope	corresp with Thomas Spedding
Repository	Mirehouse
Other reference	see ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
Scope	1841-73: (copies) letters (42) to Henrietta Maria, Lady Stanley of Alderley
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	RP 402
Scope	1848-74: letters (9) to Sir William Stirling-Maxwell
Repository	Glasgow City Archives
Record Reference	T-SK 29.3-27 link to online catalogue
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 24669 Stirling
Scope	1838-58: letters (18) to Sir Edward Strachey
Repository	Somerset Heritage Centre
Record Reference	DD\SH/71 link to online catalogue
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 8898 Strachey
Scope	letters to John Swinton
Repository	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
Record Reference	NRAS200 link to online catalogue
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 10561
Scope	corresp with John Tyndall
Repository	Royal Institution of Great Britain
Record Reference	Tyndall Papers, 6/F2-6/F4, 6/F9 passim, Journal IX (2/D1)
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1816: misc papers re Kirkcaldy
Repository	Kirkcaldy Art Gallery and Museum
Record Reference	NRA(S)0744
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 18847 Kirkcaldy Mus
Scope	1817-71: letters
Repository	Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Record Reference	AAF (Carlyle)
Other reference	see Accessions to repositories 1991
Scope	1819-78: letters and family letters (39)
Repository	Hornel Library
Record Reference	Y
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 10173 Hornel Library
Other reference	see NRA(S)0118
Scope	1820-53: letters (24)
Repository	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
Record Reference	Eng MS 336 link to online catalogue
Scope	1836-62: corresp (copies)
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	RP 392, 402
Scope	letters (150)
Repository	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
Record Reference	MSS VAULT HILLES link to online catalogue
Other reference	see Hilles Bequest
Scope	letters (21) and literary MSS (4)
Repository	Harvard University: Houghton Library
Other reference	see Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961

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