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Record 20005

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'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
Date: Between 6 Oct 1825 and 25 Oct 1825
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: city: Templand
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Jane Baillie Welsh
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 14 Jul 1801
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: Daughter of doctor
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Mrs Montagu
Title: letter
Genre: n/a
Form of Text: Manuscript: Letter
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20005  
Source - Print  
  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: 395
  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. 395, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20005, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle dated 25 OCtober 1825, written at Templand. Pages 393-398 in this edition. Dates of reading experience are estimate - JBW doesn't mention this letter in a her previous letter to TC dated 6 October.

 

 

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