Record Number: 4418
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
They that cultivate literary small-talk have been greatly attracted for some / time by the late number of Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) Magazine. It contains many slanderous insinuations against the Publisher's rivals - particularly a paper entitled 'translation of a Chaldee manuscript'...
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Nov 1817 and 19 Nov 1817
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:Kirkcaldy (probably)
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:Male
Date of Birth:4 Dec 1795
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
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: Title:Blackwoods Magazine
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsNovember 1817, publisher William Blackwood
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:4418
Source:Thomas Carlyle
Editor:C R Sanders
Title:The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
Place of Publication:Durham, South Carolina
Date of Publication:1970
Vol:1
Page:115-6
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from Thomas Carlyle to James Johnston, written at Kirkcaldy, dated 20th November 1817.
Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, South Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 115-6, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4418, accessed: 23 March 2023
Additional Comments:
Carlyle does not specifically state when he read it, but the passage seems to imply that he did, and he was a reader of the magazine. Refer also RED entry 2934 for another reference to the Chaldee Manuscript.
