LETTERS TO THE CARLYLES ; 1985; DOI: 10.1215/ed-12-letters-to-the-carlyles; CL 12: firstpage-12-vii-lastpage-12-viii
1840
| Margaret A. Carlyle | JCH | Copeland 147 | Mon. [1840–51] |
| W. M. Thackeray | JWC | State Univ. of Iowa | [1840?] |
| Thomas Arnold | TC | NLS 665.43 | 3 Jan. 1840 |
| John A. Carlyle | TC | NLS 1775A.244 | 8 Feb. 1840 |
| Thomas Erskine | TC | A. J. Symington, Some … Reminiscences … (London 1886) 43–45 | 10 Feb. 1840 |
| James Spedding | TC | FC | 17 Feb. 1840 |
| Margaret A. Carlyle | TC | NLS 1763.194 | [late Feb. 1840] |
| John A. Carlyle | TC | NLS 1775A.246 | 5 March 1840 |
| John A. Carlyle | TC | NLS 1775A.248 | 6 March [1840?] |
| Jean Carlyle Aitken | TC | NLS 1763.192 | 8 March 1840 |
| R. W. Emerson | TC | RWEMA | 18 March 1840 |
| John A. Carlyle | TC | NLS 1775A.252 | 27 March 1840 |
| G. C. Levey | TC | Yale | 28 March 1840 |
| James Carlyle | TC | NLS 1775A.253 | 4 April 1840 |
| G. E. Jewsbury | TC | J. Rosenmayer Diss. (London, 1970) 49–50 | 6 April 1840 |
| Thomas Erskine | TC | A. J. Symington, Some … Reminiscences … (London, 1886) 46–48 | 7 April 1840 |
| Jean Carlyle Aitken | TC | Pierpont Morgan Lib. | 8 April 1840 |
| John A. Carlyle | JCA | NLS 1763.196 | 15 April 1840 |
| William Hone | TC | MUL | 16 [April] 1840 |
| G. E. Jewsbury | TC | J. Rosenmayer Diss. (London, 1970) 51 | 18 April 1840 |
| Jean Carlyle Aitken | TC | NLS 1763.198 | 20 April 1840 |
| R. W. Emerson | TC | Yale | 21 April 1840 |
| R. W. Emerson | TC | Longhand copies: NLS 2884, RWEMA | 22 April 1840 |
| R. W. Emerson | JWC | Slater, CEC 270–71 | 22 April 1840 |
| James H. Stirling | TC | A. H. Hutchison, J. H. Stirling (London, 1912) 51–53 | 26 May 1840 |
| Charles Buller | JWC | NLS Acc. 8140 | 5 June [1840] |
| G. E. Jewsbury | TC | J. Rosenmayer Diss. (London, 1970), 51–53 | 8 June 1840 |
| John A. Carlyle | JCH | Yale | 25 June 1840 |
| G. E. Jewsbury | TC | J. Rosenmayer Diss. (London, 1970) 53–55 | 30 June 1840 |
| R. W. Emerson | TC | Slater, CEC 271–73 | 30 June 1840 |
| J. E. Hitzig | TC | NLS 2883.98 | July 1840 |
| Margaret A. Carlyle | TC | NLS 1763.205 | 19 July 1840 |
| G. E. Jewsbury | TC | J. Rosenmayer Diss. (London, 1970) 55–57 | 25 Aug. 1840 |
| John A. Carlyle | TC | NLS 1775A.255 | 29 Aug. 1840 |
| Jean Carlyle Aitken | TC | NLS 665.44 | 30 Aug. 1840 |
| R. W. Emerson | TC | Berg | 30 Aug. 1840 |
| John Sterling | TC | Yale | 18 Sept. 1840 |
| Margaret A. Carlyle | TC | Yale | [late Sept. 1840] |
| G. E. Jewsbury | TC | J. Rosenmayer Diss. (London, 1970) 57–60 | 5 Oct. 1840 |
| Margaret A. Carlyle and Alexander Carlyle | TC | NLS 1763.207 | 10 Oct. 1840 |
| Jane Wilson | TC | NLS 524.4 | [13 Oct.] 1840 |
| R. W. Emerson | TC | RWEMA | 30 Oct. 1840 |
| Samuel Rogers | TC | NLS 2883.100 | [17 Nov. 1840] |
| Margaret A. Carlyle | TC | NLS 1763.209 | 20 Nov. 1840 |
| G. E. Jewsbury | TC | J. Rosenmayer Diss. (London, 1970) 60–62 | 24 Nov. 1840 |
| Margaret A. Carlyle | TC | NLS 2883.102 | [10? Dec. 1840] |
| John Sterling | JAC | Yale | 14 Dec. 1840 |