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Thomas Carlyle : Letter dated 13 February 1822
'Well Sir - I have to thank you for your last, which certainly is the most tasteful Epistle I ever, in my life, received. I verily believe there is not a word of it, that could offend the nicest tastem or most musical ear - All is harmony, from beginning to end - and the Metaphor and Antithesis in which it abounds render the style surprisingly rich & striking.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Manuscript: Letter
Friedrich Schiller : Mary Stewart
'I thought to rise at five on Thursday morning, but fatigue made my head bad. I slept till nine - I opened "Mary Stewart" after breakfast but Dr Fiffe interrupted me, and teazed me to play at shuttlecock till I consented-'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Barry Edward O'Meara : Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St Helena
'This unfortunate O'Meara, It was the merest chance he was not sent to extend his localities in the Highlands. I would have returned the book immediately, finding how long it had been here, had the subject been any other than Napoleon - however I made what haste I could with it; but though I read whenever a temporary cessation of civilities on the part of the inhabitants left a minute at my own disposal, I only finished it at twelve o'clock the night you wrote for it - '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Henry Hart Milman : Samor, the Lord of the Bright City
'I liked Milman's books better than your scanty recommendation led me to expect- The gentleman is certainly a poet - he excells in description - the outlines of his pictures want charecter [sic] but his colouring is rich and brilliant, and on the whole his manner is very graceful - he fails sadly when he makes his personages speak and feel - however 'the Bright City' is not without heart - the episode of Lilian and Vortimer is very natural and pathetic, and Rowena's love is quite Byronical - I think if you have not read it, it is worth your time - How very presumptuous it is in me to attempt criticising such an Author as Milman!-'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Barry Edward O'Meara : Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from Saint-Helena
'I have just this instant finished the O'Meara - and have no time to write. You quite distress me by sending me so many books-'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book, Volume 2 of 2Manuscript: Letter
Edward Hyde (Earl of Clarendon) : History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England,
'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adhering to the plan you have sketched for me. This I am endeavouring to do - I immediately commenced an active search through the libraries of my acquaintance for some of the books you named... I prefer[r]ed acqu[a]inting myself with the history of England through the medium of Clarendon. Clarendon however is 'out of fashion'.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Charles Rollin : The Ancient History
'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adhering to the plan you have sketched for me. This I am endeavouring to do - I immediately commenced an active search through the libraries of my acquaintance for some of the books you named... My next attempt was on Rollin and that proved more successful. I read his Ancient History in my infancy; but remembered no more of it than the number of volumes. I have already finished the first volume.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Friedrich Schiller : Maria Stuart
'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ever saw) - when you devoted four hours of my day to the study of history, what did you mean should become of my Italian and my dear German?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Vittorio Alfieri : Unknown
'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ever saw) - when you devoted four hours of my day to the study of history, what did you mean should become of my Italian and my dear German?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Publius Cornelius Tacitus : Unknown
'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ever saw) - when you devoted four hours of my day to the study of history, what did you mean should become of my Italian and my dear German?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Charles Rollin : The History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients
'I finished Rollin before these people came. I am quite distressed about my memory - after all the time and pains I have bestowed on this ancient history I find my mind retains but a faint outline of it. - I did not read the dissertation on the arts and sciences it seemed lumpish stuff, and foreign to my present purpose[.] However if you think it for my good to spend a fortnight on these three volumes I will not grudge it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Thomas Carlyle : Cruthers and Johnson
'You did not mean me to return your story? I hope not - I shall soon be able to say it by heart - how I envy you! I would give Shandy and my pearl necklace to be able to write such an other - but that I shall never be!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: BookManuscript: Sheet
Friedrich Schiller : William Tell
'I have finished William Tell - and mean to commence Turandot on Monday - I could read Schiller for ever - who but himself could have made such a play as Tell on such a plan?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: BookManuscript: Sheet
Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonvantura Trapassi (AKA Metastatio) : Unknown
'Metastatio is improving I finish Themistocles and the second book of Annals today also - what tempted you to send me that deplorable (these blots are no work of mine) volume of calamities? it was enough to throw any one in my case into the blue devils for a twelvemonth to come.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Gozzi Carlo : Turnadot, Princess of China
'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Turnadot and Napoleon's memoirs - I assure you I have made a violent effort to keep my temper-'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Comte Emmanuel Dieudonne de Las Cases : Memorial de Sainte Helene
'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Turnadot and Napoleon's memoirs - I assure you I have made a violent effort to keep my temper-'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Stella
'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled me so excessively that I thought it adviseable to let it alone for a little and try something else - I chose Stella as I had read it in french and with great difficulty I have got through it and part of Clavigo - I do not think I shall like Goethe much unless he improves greatly-'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Clavigo, a Tragedy
'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled me so excessively that I thought it adviseable to let it alone for a little and try something else - I chose Stella as I had read it in french and with great difficulty I have got through it and part of Clavigo - I do not think I shall like Goethe much unless he improves greatly-'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Giovanne Boccaccio : Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle
'I have read no more of Boccac[c]io than his description of the plague which is extremely powerful from the hesitation you seemed to have in allowing me to read him I felt inclined to return it immediately - but on reflection I thought it silly to deprive myself of the pleasure of reading a clever work because it contained some exceptionable passages which I might pass of[f] even if I found them disagreeable - so I shall go on - at least as long as I find it for my good- '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'I have finished the second voluime of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I am near the end of Egmont which I like infinitely better than then two following pieces - At last I am beginning to recognise the Goethe you admire -'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Egmont
'I have finished the second volume of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I am near the end of Egmont which I like infinitely better than then two following pieces - At last I am begnining to recognise the Goethe you admire -'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Giovanne Boccaccio : Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle
'Boccac[c]io I return! - I have read the introduction and three of the tales which I took by chance from different parts of the book - in the two first my choice was fortunate and I was inclined to think the work had been belied - the third was enough - I will never open the book again -'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has interested me - '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Niccolo Macchiavelli : Discourses on Livy
'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has interested me - '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Germaine de Stael : Life of Necker [Jacques?]
'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more difficult than his verse or my head is much thicker than it was in winter.- I hope it is not putting you to inconvenience my detaining these books so long[.] If you want them tell me instantly- '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Friedrich Schiller : Fiesco Or, The Conspiracy of Genoa: an Historical Tragedy
'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more difficult than his verse or my head is much thicker than it was in winter.- I hope it is not putting you to inconvenience my detaining these books so long[.] If you want them tell me instantly-'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Anon : Review of Edward Irving's The Orations and the Arguments For Judgment To Come
'Tell me - did you write the critic [critique] on his [Edward Irving's] book, which appeared in the Sunday Times - I had not read two sentences of it till I said to myself "this is He" do not forget to tell me - I shall be disappointed if I find I have mistaken your style -'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
William Robertson : Charles V
'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volume of the History of America. At this rate I calculate on getting through with all the books which you recommend to me in about twenty years.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
unknown : History of America
'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volume of the History of America. At this rate I calculate on getting through with all the books which you recommend to me in about twenty years.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Thomas De Quincey : Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
'Is there any decent review of Meister? I have seen only one, in the London Magazine, it did not make me angry- I should have grieved to see you well treated in the same page where Goethe was handled so unworthily.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
Unknown (trad) : Jack The Giant Killer
'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutledges's Sermons" and "Black's sermons" neither of which I have any relish for, and the "Juvenile Library" which, with the exception of "Jack the Gi[ant] Killer", ["]Blue Beard" and the "Wishing cap" that I read last night, does not appear to be particularly edifying...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Mary Martha Sherwood : The Wishing Cap
'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutledges's Sermons" and "Black's sermons" neither of which I have any relish for, and the "Juvenile Library" which, with the exception of "Jack the Gi[ant] Killer", ["]Blue Beard" and the "Wishing cap" that I read last night, does not appear to be particularly edifying...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Unknown : Blue Beard
'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutledges's Sermons" and "Black's sermons" neither of which I have any relish for, and the "Juvenile Library" which, with the exception of "Jack the Gi[ant] Killer", ["]Blue Beard" and the "Wishing cap" that I read last night, does not appear to be particularly edifying...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Leigh Hunt : The Wishing Cap
'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undoubtedly have curled my hair with your Examiner, without discovering that it contained such interesting news.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Serial / periodical
Various : Autographs
'On the other hand, the most pleasurable thing, which has befallen me was receiving two packets, from England, in the same night: the one a letter of fifteen pages from Mr Baillie; the other a collection of autographs from his Opposite. What do you think? among these were a letter from Goethe, and a fragment of a letter from Byron!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Manuscript: Autographs
Thomas Carlyle : Letter dated 20th January 1825
'Well! Dearest you have criticised my letter - it is now my turn to criticise yours. Be patient, then, and good-tempered, I beg; for you shall find me a severer critic than the Opiumeater-'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Manuscript: Letter
Mrs Montagu : Letter
'I have had a letter from Mrs Montague and, (which is still more extraordinary) I have answered it. What on earth did you say, to make her so good to me? She could not have written more frankly and affectionately if I had been her own child. I have never met with any thing like this from Woman before- I purpose loving Mrs Montague all my life; if I find her always the same as she has introduced herself to me.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Manuscript: Letter
Mrs Montagu : Letter dated 13 June
'I am very curious to see Mrs Montagu's catalogue of duties: so take care that you do not light your pipe with the letter. I have heard from the "noble Lady" again, and written again - She will surely be satisfied that there is no worm of disappointment preying on my damask cheek; for I have told her in luminous EngLIsh that my heart is not in England but in Annandale!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Manuscript: Letter
Mrs Montagu : Letter dated 3 July
I had two sheets from Mrs Montagu the other day trying to prove to me that I knew nothing at all of my own heart (Mercy how romantic she is[.)] write presently to Templand.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Manuscript: Letter
Mrs Montagu : Letter dated 20 July
'My dearest I thought to write to you from this place with joy; I write with shame and tears. The enclosed letter, which I found lying for me, has distracted my thoughts from the prospect of our meeting-the brightest in my mind for many months, and fixed them on a part of my own conduct which makes me unworthy ever to see you, or be clasped to your true heart again. I cannot come to you cannot be at peace with myself:... I loved [Edward Irving]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Manuscript: Letter
Thomas Carlyle : Letter dated 29th July 1825
'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 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Manuscript: Letter
Grace Baillie Welsh : Letter
'She sulked for four and twenty hours, and then wrote me a long epistle; wherein she demonstrated (not by geometrical reasonings) that I was utterly lost to all sense of duty; and towards you. "She had, indeed, given her consent to our union" (she said) "when you should have made yourself a name and a situation in life [entire phrase underscored twice]; but only because I asked it, with tears, upon my bended knees, at a time, too, when my life seemed precarious!!"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Manuscript: Letter
Mrs Montagu : letter
'I have had an answer from Mrs Montagu full of rhetoric, and kindness; but no matter for the rhetoric! She is good to me; and charity covereth a multitude of sins- She says "Mr Carlyle ought not to have stept in between you and your kind intention; nay more, he ought himself to have seen my boy"-'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Manuscript: Letter
Torquato Tasso : Aminta
'Thank you for Herder which came in the nick of time; as I had just heard the last oracle of Nathan, and was ennuying myself with Tasso's Aminta- '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
Unknown : Unknown
'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's work-box; where a 'spunk of fire' is lit for the forenoon; and I meanwhile sit scribbling and meditating, and wrestling with the powers of Dulness, till one or two o'clock; when I sally forth into city, or towards the sea-shore, taking care only to be home for the important purpose of consuming my mutton-chop at four. After dinner, we all read learned languages till coffee (which we now often take instead of tea), and so on till bed-time...'
