| Evidence: | '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.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 8 Jan 1823 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Haddington specific address: Family home |
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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: | Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonvantura Trapassi (AKA Metastatio) |
| Title: | Unknown |
| Genre: | Drama, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17428 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | 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: | 2 | |
| Page: | 273 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jane Baillie Welsh, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 2, p. 273, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17428, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle dated 8th January 1823, written at Haddington. Pages 262 - 265 in this edition. |
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