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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I "would write a very elegant and spirited critique on it" - which I am not so cer...	Thomas Carlyle	Joanna Baillie	Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Having heard some lectures on Spurzheim's ideas] 'I have since looked into the Dr's book, and if possible the case is worse. Certainly, it is not true, that, our intelle...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Spurzheim	[work on phrenology]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Meantime I am reading Grubers Wieland: he is about equal to Doctor Joralic our worthy friend: a more learned man, but at bottom another of the same.-'	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Gottfried Gruber	Christop Martin Wieland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I finished your Musaeus ten days ago: it is a nice little book and will do very well. You shall have it at Had[dingto]n whenever you get there, with multifarious advice...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Karl August Musaeus	Volksmahrchen der Deutschen	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider... With respect to ...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Faust	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and delivered me a little blue parcel, requiring for it a n...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	private letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'With my own share of the Packet I feel not less contented. Especially glad was I to find my old favourite the Wanderjahre so considerably enlarged: the new portions of ...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Farbenlehre [The Theory (or Science) of Colour], which you are so good as to offer me, I have never seen, and shall thankfully accept, and study, it.'	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Farbenlehre	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'This morning I received a copy of Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Travels), a sort of sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, which is at present stealing into what no...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I would have answered your letter sooner but for a long series of movements and countermovements I have had to execute. I also wished to read Goethe's book, before dete...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Meister Wilhelm's Wanderjahre (first volume)	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over ...	Thomas Carlyle	John Bristed	America and her Resources	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...	Thomas Carlyle	John Hoole	Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered...	Thomas Carlyle	John Keill	Introductio ad veram physicam	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Carlyle transcribes a poem by John Leyden he has read in Hogg's 'Spy' and sends it to Robert Mitchell] 'Well, if I am not much deceived you will thank me, for transcribi...	Thomas Carlyle	John Leyden	'Shout, Britons, for the Battle of Asaye'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have read Millar on the English government &c-'	Thomas Carlyle	John Millar	Historical View of the English Government, An	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Without reluctance, I push aside the massy quarto of Millar on the English government, to perform ther more pelasing duty of writing a few lines to you, by the conveyanc...	Thomas Carlyle	John Millar	Historical View of the English Government, An	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.	Thomas Carlyle	John Milton	Prose works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I have read little since I saw you: and of that little, I...	Thomas Carlyle	John Playfair	Dissertation Second: Exhibiting a general View of ...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Last night, I was listening to music and the voice of song amid dandy clerks and sparkling females - laughing at times even to soreness at the marvellous Dr John Scott (...	Thomas Carlyle	John Scott	'Blackwood's Magazine' [ARTICLE TITLE] in 'The Lon...	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied itself with ranking your Latin (I now discover) far t...	Thomas Carlyle	John A. Carlyle	Thesis for medical degree "De Mentis Alientione" (...	Manuscript: Degree thesis

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