Record Number: 26464

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Now the other morning Dr Irving shows me the last vol. of Constable's Miscellany, and a most magnificent passage in the Preface about this very book. Be so good as to look at that before we go farther.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 11 Jan 1828 and 18 Jan 1828

Country:

Scotland

Time

morning

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Thomas Carlyle

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

George Moir

Title:

Preface to 'Constable's Miscellany' vol. 18, Schiller's Thirty Years War, I

Genre:

Fiction, Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

This volume published 1828 - series published between 1826 and 1835

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

26464

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:

307

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. 307, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=26464, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Taken from letter from TC to William Tait, written at 21 Comley Bank, dated 18 January 1928 (by editor). Pages 307-308 in this edition. Editor's note states that 'Carlyle refers here to vol. XVIII, Schiller's 'Thirty Year's War', I (1828). The translator, George Moir, quotes in his preface work to which we have been large indebted, and in our opinion, the ablest piece of biographical criticism which this century has produced.'