LETTERS TO THE CARLYLES ; 2003; DOI: 10.1215/ed-31-letters-to-the-carlyles; CL 31: firstpage-31-xxvii
January–September 1856
| From | To | Source | Date |
| Aurelio Saffi | JWC | NLS 1774.82 | 1 Jan. 1856 |
| Robert Browning | TC | Armstrong Browning | 23 Jan. 1856 |
| William Bridges | TC | FC | 25 Jan. 1856 |
| Anonymous | TC | FC | 11 Feb. 1856 |
| W. Nichol | TC | FC | 11 Feb. 1856 |
| T. T. Meadows | TC | NLS 1767.100 | 4 April 1856 |
| Ann Lowe | TC | FC | 9 April 1856 |
| H. A. Bruce | TC | NLS 1767.105 | 10 April 1856 |
| Lord Goderich | TC | Yale | 11 April 1856 |
| Joseph Neuberg | TC | Yale | 1 May 1856 |
| R. W. Emerson | JWC | NLS 3218.106 | 5 May 1856 |
| R. W. Emerson | TC | RWEMA | 6 May 1856 |
| Ann Lowe | TC | FC | 7 May 1856 |
| Alan Ker | TC | NLS 1767.109 | 10 May 1856 |
| Ann Lowe | TC | FC | 13 May 1856 |
| William Napier | TC | NLS 1767.123 | 16 May 1856 |
| W. Johnson | TC | NLS 1767.125 | 17 May 1856 |
| Joseph Neuberg | TC | Yale | 28 May 1856 |
| Henrietta Dillon | TC | NLS 1767.127 | [31 May 1856] |
| Unidentified | TC | Yale | 2 June 1856 |
| William Knighton | TC | Yale | 7 June 1856 |
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| Oskar von Reichenbach | [JWC?] | NLS 1767.129 | 18 June 1856 |
| William Johnstone | TC | NLS 1767.130 | 3 July 1856 |
| Robert Browning | TC | NLS 3218.119 | [17 July 1856] |
| Charles Dickens | TC | NLS 666.77 | 20 July 1856 |
| Jessie Donaldson | JWC | NLS 1774.84 | 29 July 1856 |
| John Barlow | JWC | NLS 1774.86 | 29 July 1856 |
| Betty Braid | JWC | NLS 3278.129 | [1 Aug. 1856] |
| George Rennie | JWC | NLS 1774.88 | 3 Aug. 1856 |
| Charles Butler | TC | NLS 1767.134 | 4 Aug. 1856 |
| R. W. Emerson | TC | RWEMA | 22 Aug. 1856 |
| Lady Ashburton | JWC | A. Carlyle, NLM 2:118 inc | [ca. late Aug. 1856] |
| Oskar von Reichenbach | [TC?] | NLS 1767.137 | 9 Sept. 1856 |
| Thomas Erskine | JWC | NLS 1774.92 | 11 Sept. 1856 |