Record Number: 4421
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade. The same causes still obstruct my progress You will perhaps be surprised that I am even now no farther advanced than the 'circle of curvature'. I have found his demonstrations circuitous but generally rigorous.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 4 Sep 1817 and 15 Feb 1818
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: 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 / 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: Title:'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Mathematics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsPublished in Edinburgh, publication date of this edition unknown
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:4421
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:120
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from Carlyle to Robert Mitchell, dated 16th February 1818, written at Kirkcaldy. Pages 118-122 in this edition.
Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, South Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 120, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4421, accessed: 28 March 2023
Additional Comments:
See RED ref 2918 for earlier reference to this work in letter dated 25th September 1817. Dates of reading experience are estimate based on when he refers to first reading it, until date of this letter. He does not say when or where exactly he reads it.
