Record Number: 26464
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
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 look at that before we go farther.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 11 Jan 1828 and 18 Jan 1828
Country:Scotland
Timemorning
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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solitary in company unknown
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(Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
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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:Preface to 'Constable's Miscellany' vol. 18, Schiller's Thirty Years War, I
Genre:Fiction, Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsThis volume published 1828 - series published between 1826 and 1835
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:26464
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:4
Page:307
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), 4, p. 307, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=26464, accessed: 17 February 2025
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from TC to William Tait, written at 21 Comley Bank, dated 18 January 1928 (by editor). Pages 307-308 in this edition. Editor's note states that 'Carlyle refers here to vol. XVIII, Schiller's 'Thirty Year's War', I (1828). The translator, George Moir, quotes in his preface work to which we have been large indebted, and in our opinion, the ablest piece of biographical criticism which this century has produced.'