Most of this project is based on the Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Carlyle and on unpublished material from JAC's papers in the National Library of Scotland. On their web site you can find a detailed catologue of his letters and various odds and ends among the Carlyle papers.

The other main source of material comes from the letter of Jane and Thomas Carlyle. The official Collected Letters have now reached the 1850's and I have used them for all those quoted up to then. To avoid clutter, I have not given specific references to volume or page in every case, but have almost always dated quotations and that alone makes them easy to trace. The Collected Letters are to be published shortly on the web, and will be searchable, but will not be free of charge. Follow the link for further information about this project. For letters of a later date than the Collected Letters have reached so far - currently after 1855-56 - I have quoted from other sources, such as Froude, and from other collections of letters: Jane's published letters with notes by Thomas, the volume of letters between the Carlyles and their brother Alex in America, etc. All these are in the detailed references to the Jane and Thomas sections of this web site.

I have found it difficult to find references to nineteenth century travelling physicians despite diligent searching, but try a search in the Wellcome Library There is a considerable body of work about travelling on the Grand Tour in the 18th century, some of which applies to the early 19th century, but there is a dearth of material about travel to Italy in the earlier Victorian years - there must be much that is unpublished. For the Grand Tour in eighteenth century read:

Black, Jeremy. The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century. 1992, Sutton Publishing. Paperback edition, 2003.

and

Black, Jeremy. Italy and the Grand Tour. 2003. Yale University Press.

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