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Record Number: 22234


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied itself with ranking your Latin (I now discover) far too little above the usual Grinder Latin. Some of these sentences are quite good. The sense too so far as it extends in these few lines is clear and flowing; and I have no doubt, if the rest in any way correspond to it, your Essay will be very far above the average.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

24 Feb 1826

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

specific address: Hoddam Hill

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:

Thomas Carlyle

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

John A. Carlyle

Title:

Thesis for medical degree "De Mentis Alientione" (On Diseases Of The Mind)

Genre:

Medicine, Thesis

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Degree thesis

Publication Details

Unknown

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

22234

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

4

Page:

49

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 4, p. 49, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=22234, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Taken from letter from TC to John A. Carlyle dated 7 March 1826, written at Hoddam Hill (Carlyle family residence). Pages 49-51 in this edition.

   
   
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