Record Number: 17498
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'If you have heard no news lately from the south, it will be fresh intelligence for you that Lawson had a call to Selkirk, which as I learn from this day's newspaper (after his opinion faintly declared to the contrary) the Synod compelled him to decline.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:21 Sep 1823
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Nr. Dunkeld
county: Perthshire
specific address: Kinnaird House
(Reader):
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solitary in company unknown
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(Listener):
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:4 Dec 1795
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer / Academic
Religion:Lapsed Calvinist
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[newspaper]
Genre:Newspaper
Form of Text:Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17498
Source:Thomas Carlyle
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:437
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 2, p. 437, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17498, accessed: 28 March 2023
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from TC to James Johnston dated 21 September 1823, written at Kinnaird House. Pages 435 - 438 in this edition. Editor's note states that he is referring to Andrew Lawson. See also Carlyle's letter to JAC, dated 29 March 1820.
