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Record Number: 12716


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Now that you have finished Rollin, I think you ought to begin some other book on general literature, directed if possible like it, in some degree to the progress of your classical studies.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

12 Jan 1822

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

John A. Carlyle

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Physician

Religion:

Unknown

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Charles Rollin

Title:

Histoire ancienne des Egyptiennes, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Medes, des Perses, des Macedoniens, et des Grecs (6 vols)

Genre:

History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

6 vols, Paris, 1740

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

12716

Source:

Print

Author:

Thomas Carlyle

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:

11

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Thomas Carlyle, CR Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 2, p. 11, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=12716, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Taken from letter from Carlyle to John A. Carlyle (his younger brother), dated 12th January 1822. Pages 10-13 in this edition.

   
   
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