Record Number: 19962
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'My own, best, dearest Love I do believe I should have gone out of my senses, if your letter had been a day longer of coming. As it was they were obilged to put leeches on my temples to keep me quiet: they thought it was the fatigue of travelling which had made me ill again; and I did not take any pains to undeceive them. My God! what should I suffer, were I indeed to lose your regard, when the apprehension discomposes me thus?'
Century:1800-1849
Date:4 Aug 1825
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Templand
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:Female
Date of Birth:14 Jul 1825
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
Occupation:Daughter of doctor
Religion:Christian
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:Letter dated 29th July 1825
Genre:Letter
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:19962
Source:Jane Baillie Welsh
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:3
Page:361
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jane Baillie Welsh, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 3, p. 361, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19962, accessed: 15 August 2025
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle dated 4 August 1825, written at Templand. Pages 361-363 in this edition. See her letter to TC of 24 July in which she confesses to having been in love to Edward Irving, and TC's reply of 29th July.
