Record Number: 28948

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'On Monday morning Grahame came down to breakfast, read your St John Long;, and insisted on my riding up with him to Grange: we went by Waterbeck and Torbeckhill, over the wet moor; had a meek, gently pleasant afternoon; I returned about eight o'clock, and found — O wonder and terror — an Express from Dumfries with tidings that the Jeffreys had notified that they would all be at Craigenputtoch that night!'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

13 Sep 1830

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

specific address: Scotsbrig

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:

William Graham

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Unknown

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

Thomas Carlyle - and other members of the Carlyle family and also possible servants

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John A. Carlyle

Title:

On Medical Quackery and Mr St John Long'

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Medicine

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Fraser's Magazine, 1 (May 1830): 451-56

Provenance

borrowed (other)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28948

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:

162-3

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. 162-3, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28948, accessed: 04 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Taken from letter from TC to John A. Carlyle, dated 18th September 1830, written at Craigenputtoch. Scotsbrig is the family home of Carlyle's parents. Graham's full name and details of essay being read, are given in Editor's notes.