Evidence: | '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.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 11 Nov 1822 and 1 Jan 1823 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Haddington specific address: Family home |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Jane Baillie Welsh |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 14 Jul 1801 |
Socio-economic group: | n/a |
Occupation: | N/A |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charles Rollin |
Title: | The History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients |
Genre: | History, Science, Arts / architecture |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17425 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jane Baillie Welsh | |
Editor: | CR Sanders | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
Place of Publication: | Durham, North Carolina | |
Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 263 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jane Baillie Welsh, CR Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 2, p. 263, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17425, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle dated 8th January 1823. Pages 262 - 265 in this edition. Estimated date range based on JBW's previous letter dated 11th November in which she mentions having started on Rollin, and mentioning in this letter that she finished it a week before the guests arrived a week previously. |
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