Record Number: 11318
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have translated a portion of Schiller's History of the thirty years war (it is all about Gustavus and the fellow-soldados of Dugald Dalgetty your dearly-beloved friend); and sent it off, with a letter introduced by Tait the Review-bookseller, to Longman and Co London.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Geschichte des dreissigj?hrigen Kriegs
Genre:History
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsFirst published 1791 - 1793
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:11318
Source: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:1
Page:301
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 301, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=11318, accessed: 04 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from Carlyle to Alexander Carlyle, dated 2nd January 1821, written at Edinburgh. Pages 299 - 302 in this edition.