Record Number: 28633

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thank your kind friend and host for his little Book, great part of which I read that afternoon: but my Mother got it and carried it down with her, she seemed to so anxious I could not refuse. In my humble opinion, if the common interpretation of the Bible is to be followed, our friend is perfectly right, nay indubitably and palpably so: at all events, the gainsayers are utterly, hopelessly, and stone-blindly wrong. My Mother who is a better judge than I, declared it to be soundest doctrine, often preached in her hearing[.]'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 10 Apr 1830 and May 1830

Country:

Scotland

Time

afternoon

Place:

county: Dumfries
specific address: Craigenputtoch

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Thomas Carlyle

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Dec 1795

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer / Academic

Religion:

Lapsed Calvinist

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Edward IRving

Title:

Orthodox and Catholic Doctrine of Our Lord's Human Nature

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Published Janaury 1830

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28633

Source:

Print

Author:

Thomas Carlyle

Editor:

C. R. Sanders

Title:

The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina

Date of Publication:

1970

Vol:

5

Page:

98

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Thomas Carlyle, C. R. Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 5, p. 98, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28633, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Taken from letter from Thomas Carlyle to John A. Carlyle, dated 1st May 1830, written at Craigenputtoch. Information about the work Carlyle refers to is given in the Editor's notes. The book was written in reply to J. A. Haldane's 'Refutation of Mr Irving's Heretical Doctrine' (1828); this controversy was to lead first to Irving's exclusion from the Scottish National Church, though he remained a minister (May 1832), and then to his deposition by the Annan Presbytery, as a result of which he was declared neither a minister nor a member of the Church of Scotland (March 1833). Date range is an estimate based on date of this letter and the date of TC's previous letter to John A. Carlyle (dated 10th April).