√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841:
'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; and now this day I have
been looking into your Pippa... Thomas Carlyle Robert Browning Pippa Passes Print : Book1800-1849 'I read Spenser these some mornings, while eating my breakfast. He is a dainty little fellow, as ever you saw: I propose that you and he shall be closely acquainted by a... Thomas Carlyle Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Print : Book1800-1849 '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 : Book1800-1849 'Byron has sent us a new poem the Age of Bronze: it is short, and pithy - but not at all poetical. Byron may still easily fail to be a great man. You shall see his Bron... Thomas Carlyle George Gordon Byron The Age Of Bronze Print : BookManuscript : LetterUnknown1800-1849 '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 : Letter1800-1849 'If you have heard no news lately from the south, it will be fresh intelligence for you that Lawson had a call to Selkirk, which as I learn from this day's newspaper (aft... Thomas Carlyle [newspaper] Print : NewspaperManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished. On the whole he should not have published it - till after a considerable time. There is... Thomas Carlyle Edward Irving For The Oracles Of God, Four Orations Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a talk and a walk: we correct the Printer's sheets toge... Thomas Carlyle Thomas Carlyle Proofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings' Print : ProofsManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'Did you get Meister; did they get them at Annan? It is slowly and sparingly coming forth here: I see it in the windows of the principal booksellers - there was a kind o... Thomas Carlyle Examiner (Newspaper Chat section) Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I was very much obliged by the Scotsman you sent me to Foley Place, and the criticism of Meister contained in it - shallow and narrow enough it is true, but favourable a... Thomas Carlyle The Scotman Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Did you get the two Examiners I sent you? The last of them was forced into my hand by a news-vender, just as I was mounting the Coach at 7am, and what should I see in i... Thomas Carlyle Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhel... Print : Book, Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I am daily expecting a letter from you on the subject of the Life of Schiller. I have got a copy of his Works beside me, which I have been glancing over; and I feel anx... Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Schiller Works Print : Book1800-1849 '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 : Book1800-1849 '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 : Letter1800-1849 'My own Jane!- You are a noble girl; and your true and generous heart shall not lie oppressed anotehr instant under any weight that I can tkae from it... This letter is, ... Thomas Carlyle Jane Baillie Welsh Letter dated 29th January Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 'PS Since I finished this, I have got Alick's letter, and the Courier all in order! Thank Alick and my dear Father for the pleasure and contentment they have given me: h... Thomas Carlyle The Courier Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'There is a Spaniard here (one of the refugees) who from Catholic has become Protestant, a very honest shrewd little fellow, between whom and Irving I have had occasion f... Thomas Carlyle Spanish Grammar Print : Book1800-1849 'My dear Alick, No piece of news that I have heard for a long time has given me more satisfaction than the intelligence contained in your letter of yesterday. For severa... Thomas Carlyle Alexander Carlyle Letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 'Yesterday Badams wrote me (from admist the 'wild beasts of Ephesus,' as he calls the new Mining Companies, with whom he is in constant treaty about some important smelti... Thomas Carlyle Badams Letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 'He has written to me twice since his departure; he insists that I shall take a little pony of his with all its furniture; ride home on it thro' the Peak country in Derby... Thomas Carlyle Badams Letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and ... Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Leben Fibels Print : Book1800-1849 'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and ... Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Herbst-blumine oder gesammelte Wekchen aus Zeitsch... Print : Book1800-1849 'Of Richter I yet know little; I havelooked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and T... Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Die Flegeljahre Print : Book1800-1849 'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in Ger... Thomas Carlyle Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine Raphael Print : Book1800-1849 'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in Ger... Thomas Carlyle Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine Rudolph von Werdenberg Print : Book1800-1849 'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in Ger... Thomas Carlyle Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine Tinchen oder die Mannerprobe Print : Book1800-1849 'I have read nothing, but half of one German novel, last sunday! Not long ago, all this would have made me miserable; but at present I submit to it with equanimity, and e... Thomas Carlyle unknown [German novel] Print : Book1800-1849 'It is many a weary year since I have been so idle or so happy. I have not done two sheets of Werter yet; I read Richter and Jacobi, I ride, and hoe cabbages, and like Ba... Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich Richter unknown Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'How kind, how simple, true and good! Beautifully welcome, in my sombre vacancy here! (Dumfries, Septr, 1868) This Letter to my Mother (dear kind Letter!) I must have br... Thomas Carlyle Jane Baillie Welsh Letter dated 9 October 1825 Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Thomas Carlyle to Alfred Tennyson, 7 December 1842:
'I have just been reading your Poems; I have read certain of them over again [goes on to praise Poems further, citi... Thomas Carlyle Alfred Tennyson Poems Print : Book1800-1849 '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 thesis1800-1849 I guessed what was detaining your letter: but I scarcely dared to expect it on Saturday. It came in company with a quarter of a volume of Proofs, or I should have answer... Thomas Carlyle Thomas Carlyle Proofs Print : Proofs1800-1849 'Dearest - I found not only a load of Books on Saturday, but eight proof sheets besides; the consideration and alteration of which, attended with other sorry enough drawb... Thomas Carlyle Unknown Unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'A pack of sheets came down on Monday morning, with a long letter from the Bibliophile requiring an alteration in the Title-page and Preface; then Jonathan on Wednesday m... Thomas Carlyle Thomas Carlyle Title page and preface of 'German Romance' Print : Title page and prefaceManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'You will never in the world guess what sort of a pastime I have had resourse to in this windbound portion of my voyage. Nothing less than the reading of Kant's Transcen... Thomas Carlyle Immanuel Kant The Critique of Pure Reason Print : Book1800-1849 'I was very much obliged by your copy of Doering's Jean Paul and the manuscript sent along with it; whch tho' too late for assisting my printed critical labours I perused... Thomas Carlyle JMH Doring Jean Paul Richters Leben Print : Book1800-1849 'This day I was in the Advocates Library seeking German Books, and I found (directed by Dr Irving) the first Article in the Monthly Review devoted to our "German Romance"... Thomas Carlyle anon Review of 'German Romance' Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Jeffrey has sent me a note requesting the Ops Majus by the middle of next month, and enclosing a draft of twenty guineas for the article on Richter. You may conceive wh... Thomas Carlyle Franz Horn Unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'The Edinr Review is out some time ago; and the 'State of German Literature' has been received with considerable surprise and approbation by the Universe. Thus for insta... Thomas Carlyle Thomas de Quincey Review of 'State of German Literature' Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Now the other morning Dr Irving shows me the last vol. of Constable's Miscellany, and a most magnificent passage in the Preface about this very book. Be so good as to lo... Thomas Carlyle George Moir Preface to 'Constable's Miscellany' vol. 18, Schil... Print : Book1800-1849 'I [ac]cordingly wrote off to St. Andrews; and the next day, to all the four winds in quest of recommendations. To Goethe, to Irving, to Buller, to Brewster &c &c. Thes... Thomas Carlyle David (dr) Brewster Recommendation Manuscript : Letter of recommendation1800-1849 'We are greatly pleased with your sketches of 'German character'; your Oken, your pert Surgeon, your Schelli[n]g &c must surely be pictures from the Life. Becker says Ok... Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle Letter dated 6th Feb, Munich Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 'Dear Little Crow, I duly received your Munich Letter, and your Proofsheet Package, on two successive Wednesdays; and had reason to approve your activity and sagacity in ... Thomas Carlyle Jean Carlyle Package of Proofsheets Manuscript : Proofsheets1800-1849 'Your sad Messenger is just arrived. I had again been cherishing Hopes, when the day of Hope was clean gone. Compose yourself, my beloved Wife, and try to feel that the... Thomas Carlyle Jane Welsh Carlyle Message about Aunt's death Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 '[Thomas] Carlyle saw Scott's greatness in the extracts from the Diary given by Lockhart. The stern critic rightly recalls the feelings and conduct evidenced by those ext... Thomas Carlyle Walter Scott Journal (extracts) Print : Book1800-1849 '[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.' Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle Review of Sir Walter Scott's 'Letters on Demonolog... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Dear Sir,—I have received your beautiful volume, probably the finest bit of typography that ever came before me; and have looked over it with interest and pleasure—certa... Thomas Carlyle Robert Story The Poetical Works Of Robert Story Print : Book1800-1849 '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 : Book1800-1849 'The Briefwechsel [Goethe-SChiller correspondence] I have also read; and must soon read again; purposing to make it the handle for an Essay on Schiller, in the Foreign Re... Thomas Carlyle Goethe & Schiller Correspondence Print : Book1800-1849 '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 : Book1800-1849 'Assure Mr Montagu, that his Book was the most delightful I have read for many days. Your hand also was visible in it. Why does he not publish more such?' Thomas Carlyle Basil Montagu Thoughts on Laughter By a Chancery Barrister Unknown 1800-1849 'I have got old Ascham, and read a little of him, when I have done work, every evening.' Thomas Carlyle Roger Ascham ?'Toxophilus' and 'The Scholemaster' Unknown 1800-1849 'Did you read Sir W Hamilton on Cousin's Metaphysics in the last Edinburgh Review? And what inferences are we to draw from it? Pity that Sir W. had not the gift of deli... Thomas Carlyle Sir William Hamilton Review of Victor Cousin's 'Cours de Philosophie' (... Print : Serial / periodicalUnknown1800-1849 'I have read the Briefechsel, a second time, with no little satisfaction; and even today am sending off an Essay on Schiller, grounded on that work, for the Foreign Revie... Thomas Carlyle Schiller & Goethe Correspondence Print : Serial / periodicalUnknown1800-1849 'I have read your Anim. Magnetism, and think it among the best in the Number; worthy indeed of a far better place. I durst bet, the Blacks have not paid you yet: they ar... Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle 'Animal Magnetism' Print : Serial / periodicalUnknown1800-1849 'Do you know Doven's and Hagen's Hist. of German Poetry? I have seen it in the Edinr College Library, but read only a few pages of it.' Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Henrich von der Hagen Literarischer Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutsch... Print : BookUnknown1800-1849 'I am much obliged to you for Tytler, which I have read with pleasure and not without profit: it is a smooth, easy Book; seems well-founded, accurate, authentic; and with... Thomas Carlyle Patrick Fraser Tytler History of Scotland Print : BookUnknown1800-1849 'The Examiner comes with perfect regularity; and tho' a week old is a great blessing. Continue it, if you can. Nay, if it came on Saturday (that is half a week old) thi... Thomas Carlyle The Examiner Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '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 anxio... Thomas Carlyle Edward IRving Orthodox and Catholic Doctrine of Our Lord's Human... Print : Book1800-1849 'The two Examiners came on Wednesday: we like them much.' Thomas Carlyle The Examiner Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl... Thomas Carlyle L'Organisateur inc Nos 32 & 36 Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl... Thomas Carlyle Henri de Saint-Simone Nouveau Christianisme Print : Book1800-1849 'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl... Thomas Carlyle Henri de Saint-Simone L'Industrie, ou discussions politiques, morales et... Print : Book1800-1849 'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl... Thomas Carlyle Le Producteur, journal philosophique de l'industri... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl... Thomas Carlyle Gotthold Ephraim Lessing L'Education du genre humain Print : Book1800-1849 'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl... Thomas Carlyle Emile Barrault Aux Artistes. Du Passe et du l'avenie des beaux-ar... Print : Book'I now, after too long delays, return you the Westminster Review, with Chalmers' Picture of Scotland; both of which I was very glad to see. The Picture is a very amusing ... Thomas Carlyle Robert Chambers The Picture of Scotland Print : Book'The Scottish Songs and Ballads, by the same collector, were a highly acceptable present to mel for which pray accept my best thanks. A work of that kind was certainly n... Thomas Carlyle Robert Chambers Scottish Songs and Ballads Print : Book1800-1849 '[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.' Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle 'Some passages from the Diary of the late Mr St Jo... Print : Serial / periodical
