Evidence: | '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.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 21 Dec 1824 and 3 Jan 1825 | ||||||||||
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: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer Daughter of doctor |
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: | Leigh Hunt |
Title: | The Wishing Cap |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | In The Examiner |
Provenance: | unknown Implied that it's borrowed or given by Thomas Carlyle |
Record ID: | 19079 | |
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: | 3 | |
Page: | 237 | |
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), 3, p. 237, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19079, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle dated 3rd January 1825, written at Haddington. Pages 237-239 in this edition. Estimated date range based on date (20th December) of TC's letter to her in which he draws her attention to Hunt's essays. |
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