Record Number: 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
Timen/a
Place:city: Templand
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:letter
Genre:n/a
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:20005
Source: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/RED/record_details.php?id=20005, accessed: 06 December 2023
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.