InfoTech: Duke U Press Debuts Carlyle Letters Online

by Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 09/20/2007

The Duke University Press is now offering the Carlyle Letters Online: A Victorian Cultural Reference, the electronic edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Duke said that the Carlyle Letters Online features “thousands of letters written by Scottish author and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866), to more than six hundred recipients throughout the world.” Thanks to grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Delmas Foundation, the Carlyle database is currently available at no charge to institutions and individuals. Duke is undertaking the project in conjunction with HighWire Press, a division of Stanford University Libraries. Duke asserts that Carlyle Letters Online is among the first electronic scholarly editions to be published by a university press.