| Evidence: | '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-' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 17 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 | Male |
| Date of Birth | 14 Jul 1801 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer Daughter of doctor - no profession |
| Occupation: | none |
| 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: | Thomas Carlyle |
| Title: | Letter dated 20th January 1825 |
| Genre: | Letter |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 19874 | |
| 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: | 263 | |
| 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. 263, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19874, accessed: 26 April 2024 | |
| Taken from letter from JBW to TC dated 29 January 1825. Pages 263-267 in this edition. Date range based on TC's letter to JBW dated 20th December in which he spends some pages critiquing her last letter to him. 'Opiumeater' here refers to de Quincey's review of Meister in the London Magazine. |
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