"The following pair of letters from Thomas Carlyle to Beverley Tucker were transcribed for the Collected Letters from the texts in the “Editor’s Easy Chair,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (71 [1885]: 799–800). The letters were also printed in the New York Times: “Carlyle on American Slavery. Unpublished Letters Written to a Virginian Before the War. From Harper’s Magazine for October” (20 September 1885). The transcriptions below, which correct a number of minor typographical errors, are from Carlyle’s holograph letters in the Special Collections Research Center, the William & Mary (the Tucker-Coleman papers) and are printed with permission..."