| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | They that cultivate literary small-talk have been greatly attracted for some / time by the late number of Blackwoods (... | Thomas Carlyle | | Blackwoods Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'After an arduous str[uggle] with sundry historians of grea[t and] small renown I sit down to answer the much-valued ... | Thomas Carlyle | various | [histories] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade. The same ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Wallace | 'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the cont... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the cont... | Thomas Carlyle | Edward Gibbon | Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage. Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another oppo... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 vols | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done little since I wrote last but revised Leslie's conics, and read a part of Laplace's 'exposition du system... | Thomas Carlyle | Simon-Pierre Laplace | Exposition du systeme du monde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned asid... | Thomas Carlyle | Simon-Pierre Laplace | Exposition du systeme du monde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned asid... | Thomas Carlyle | Sir John Leslie | Elements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis, and Plane Trigonometry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I likewise turned into Charles Bossut's Mecanique - to study his demonstration of pendulums, and his doctrine of forc... | Thomas Carlyle | Charles Bossut | Mecanique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was fool... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was fool... | Thomas Carlyle | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold (Canto IV) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | This is emphatic enough.- I need not speak of Dr Chalmers' boisterous treatise upon the causes & cure of pauperism in ... | Thomas Carlyle | Dr Chalmers | Title unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '27th June - The last book worth mentioning, which I perused was Stewart's preliminary dissertation - for the second t... | Thomas Carlyle | Dugald Stewart | Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work... | Thomas Carlyle | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 vols | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to... | Thomas Carlyle | Horace Benedict Saussure | Voyage dans les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Baptiste Biot | Traite de Physique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is also Madame de Stael on the French revolution - first volume only finished - remarks (if any) in the next le... | Thomas Carlyle | Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein | 'Considerations on the French Revolution' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With regard to reading, you would think I have enough of time upon my hands at present: yet the truth is, I have ofte... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Jameson | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much consci... | Thomas Carlyle | Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein | Considerations Sur La Revolution Francaise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much consci... | Thomas Carlyle | Horace Benedict Saussure | Voyages dans les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Bailly's memoires d'un temoin de la revolution, with little comfort. The book is not ill-written: but it grie... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Sylvain Bailly | Memoires D'un Temoin De La Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Dr [Brewster] stopped to tell me that he had got a paper on Chemistry written (in French) by Berzelius, professor... | Thomas Carlyle | Baron Jacob Berzelius | Examination of some compounds which depend upon very weak affinities | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'With respect to my occupations at this period; they are not of the most important nature. Berzelius' paper is printe... | Thomas Carlyle | Baron Jacob Berzelius | Examination of some compounds which depend upon very weak affinities | Print: Proof-sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'At present, I am reading a stupid play of Kotzebue's - but to-night I am to have the history of Frederick the Great f... | Thomas Carlyle | August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am rather afraid that I have not been quite regular in reading that best of books which you recommended to me. How... | Thomas Carlyle | | Book of Job | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'You are not to think that I am fretful. I have long accustomed my mind to look upon the future with a sedate aspect;... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean le Rond D'Alembert | Unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You have to answer for the sin of keeping me almost two hours from "Planta's history of the Helvetic confederacy" - w... | Thomas Carlyle | Joseph Planta | History of the Helvetic Confederacy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jard... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock | Messiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jard... | Thomas Carlyle | John Bristed | America and her Resources | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done, as usual, almost nothing since we parted- Some one asked me with a smile, of which I knew not the meanin... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and... | Thomas Carlyle | Lady Sidney Owenson Morgan | France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and... | Thomas Carlyle | Barthelemy Faujais de Saint-Frond | Voyage en Angleterre, en Ecosse et aux Iles Hebrides... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and... | Thomas Carlyle | Lady Sidney Morgan | Roderick, the Last of the Goths | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It w... | Thomas Carlyle | Abbe Raynal | Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It w... | Thomas Carlyle | Eliza Draper | Inscription to Raynal's 'History of the E. and W. Indies' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After an interval of 5 hours, spent in reading the Edinr Review and excecuting various commissions, I resume my lucub... | Thomas Carlyle | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Without reluctance, I push aside the massy quarto of Millar on the English government, to perform ther more pelasing ... | Thomas Carlyle | John Millar | Historical View of the English Government, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Millar on the English government &c-' | Thomas Carlyle | John Millar | Historical View of the English Government, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was truly sorry and at the same time tickled to observe the abrupt conclusion of your letter. The thunder of Jack'... | Thomas Carlyle | Alexander Carlyle | Letter (date unknown) | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'A review for Brewster's philosophical journal of a German book on Magnetism, I must also write or say I cannot - the ... | Thomas Carlyle | Professor Hansteen | Inquiries Concerning the Magnetism of the Earth | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E... | Thomas Carlyle | Jeffrey | Article IX | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E... | Thomas Carlyle | Jeffrey | Article X | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Southey | Article ix | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Southey | Article iv | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nothing material has occurred to me since I returned from Mainhill. I wrote the first half of "Hunsteen" and transla... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Mohs | Crystalography | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of lit... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Du Contrat Social | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of lit... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see no paper but an old Examiner - strong meat - an Olla Podrida, high-flavoured but coarse and na[u]seous to a sen... | Thomas Carlyle | Leigh Hunt | The Examiner | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Having just concluded the first volume of Sismondi's history, and the other not being yet arrived from Edinr, I think... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | unknown history | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariost... | Thomas Carlyle | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariost... | Thomas Carlyle | Eaton Stannard Barrett | Six Weeks at Long's | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have translated a portion of Schiller's History of the thirty years war (it is all about Gustavus and the fellow-so... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Schiller | Geschichte des dreissigj?hrigen Kriegs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last night, I was listening to music and the voice of song amid dandy clerks and sparkling females - laughing at time... | Thomas Carlyle | John Scott | 'Blackwood's Magazine' [ARTICLE TITLE] in 'The London Magazine' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a project on foot about translating one D'Aubuisson [a] Frenchman's geology - a large book, for the first ed... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Aubuisson | Traite de geognoise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The colossal "Wallenstein" and Thekla the angelical, and Max her impetuous lofty-minded lover are all gone to rest; I... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Schiller | Wallenstein | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I "would write a very elegant ... | Thomas Carlyle | Joanna Baillie | Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Those latter volumes of the Allemagne will perplex you, I fear. The third in particular is very mysterious; now and t... | Thomas Carlyle | Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell David Fergusson that I am charmed with his manuscript [a handwritten copy of Carlyle's "Life of Pascal"]; it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Life of Pascal | Manuscript: Sheet, Handwritten copy of Carlyle's own text |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had also to go this morning and read some old black-letter poems in the Advocates' Library: and the stomach, like a... | Thomas Carlyle | unknown | ["black-letter poems"] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is very likely that I may send you some Mathematical thing or other, seeing I have got Bossut's history of mathema... | Thomas Carlyle | Charles Bossut | Essai sur l'histoire generale des mathematiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Carlyle transcribes a poem by John Leyden he has read in Hogg's 'Spy' and sends it to Robert Mitchell] 'Well, if I am... | Thomas Carlyle | John Leyden | 'Shout, Britons, for the Battle of Asaye' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Shakespear? If you have not, then I desire you, read it directly, and tell me what you think of him -wh... | Thomas Carlyle | William Shakespeare | [Works] | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conc... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Murray | [critique of William Nicholson's works in 'The Courier'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conc... | Thomas Carlyle | W. Scott Irving | [poem celebrating peace at end of Napoleonic wars] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conc... | Thomas Carlyle | W. Scott Irving | [essays on Burns and monuments] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was greatly diverted by your specimen of Mr. Maclaurin's prose-run-mad. He seems to have imbibed, in the full sense... | Thomas Carlyle | Maclaurin | [writings quoted in a letter from Thomas Murray to Carlyle] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Once, for instance, I recollect that to fill up one of those aweful hiatus in conversation that occur at times in spi... | Thomas Carlyle | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A-propos of Authors - This evening at tea, Miss Ramsay (our governess) inquired at me if I had read that affecting re... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Murray | [article entitled 'An Affecting Occurrence'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have seen the last number of the Edinr review at Mount-annan. I regret, with you, that Jeffrey should bestow so muc... | Thomas Carlyle | Francis Jeffrey | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | Sophie Cottin | Elisabeth, ou les exiles de Siberie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | James Beattie | The Minstrel | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | Christoph Wieland | Oberon. Ein Gedicht in 14 Gesangen | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | John Hoole | Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | Richard Savage | [Poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | Francois Fenelon | Abrege des vies des anciens philosophes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | James Beresford | Miseries of Human Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I did not tell you that when I left Edinr for Dumfries, I put your paper in my pocket - and whilst my right worthy co... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Mitchell | [a mathematical paper] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ... | Thomas Carlyle | George Gordon Lord Byron | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ... | Thomas Carlyle | Richard Glover | Leonidas, A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Wilkie | The Epigoniad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ... | Thomas Carlyle | Jane Porter | The Scottish Chiefs, A Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Leonhard Euler | Elements of Algebra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Joseph Addison | The Free-holder, I-LV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Georges Cuvier | 'Discours preliminaire' to Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles des quadrupedes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Moliere [pseud.] | [Comedies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Carlyle apologises for not having written sooner, saying he has been waiting until he has procured a copy of Stewart ... | Thomas Carlyle | Stewart Lewis | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerab... | Thomas Carlyle | Sir John Leslie [or Playfair?] | review of Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les probabilites | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerab... | Thomas Carlyle | Pierre Simon Laplace | Essai philosophique sur les probabilites | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Carlyle tells how he was trying to write a learned exegesis and came to a dead halt] 'One cannot long be idle - you w... | Thomas Carlyle | [unknown] | [unknown novel] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Great and manifold are the books I have read since I saw you. You recommended "Thaddeus of Warsaw" long ago you may r... | Thomas Carlyle | Jane Porter | Thaddeus of Warsaw | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it to... | Thomas Carlyle | Cicero | De Officiis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it to... | Thomas Carlyle | Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'But the most extraordinary production of any, I have seen these many days, is "La Pucelle d'Orleans" an Epic by Volta... | Thomas Carlyle | Voltaire [pseud.] | La Pucelle d'Orleans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'But the book I am most pleased with is "Cicero de Finibus" - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his man... | Thomas Carlyle | Cicero | De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in... | Thomas Carlyle | Dugald Stewart | Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in... | Thomas Carlyle | William Rowe Lyall | [review in the Quarterly Review of Dugald Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '"Guy Mannering" is reviewed in the same number [ of the Quarterly Review]. Tho' we have still more reason to question... | Thomas Carlyle | anon | [review in the Quarterly Review of Scott's Guy Mannering] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you saw Lara; and am indebted for your account of it. I read the review of it in the Quarterly review?some ... | Thomas Carlyle | anon. | [review in the Quarterly Review Byron's Lara] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am highly indebted to you for Hume. I like his essays better than any thing I have read these many days. He has pre... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays Moral, Political and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Southey | [essay in the Quarterly Review on Lewis and Clarke's Travels] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar... | Thomas Carlyle | Mark Akenside | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | Peregrine Pickle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The best book I have read, since I wrote you, is Hume's "Essays, political and literary". It is indeed a most ingenio... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays Moral, Political and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - ... | Thomas Carlyle | Hugh Blair | Lectures on Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - ... | Thomas Carlyle | [unknown] | [an Italian Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - ... | Thomas Carlyle | Francesco Soave | Novelle Morali | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip... | Thomas Carlyle | Dugald Stewart | The Life and Writings of William Robertson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip... | Thomas Carlyle | Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip... | Thomas Carlyle | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | Benjamin Thomson Count Rumford | Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | George Stewart Mackenzie | Travels in the Island of Iceland during the summer of 1810 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich von Humboldt | Essai politique sur la royaume de nouvelle espagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | George Berkeley | Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | Dugald Stewart | Philosophical Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Simpson | A Treatise of Fluxions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history ... | Thomas Carlyle | Charles Bossut | Essai sur l'histoire generale ds mathematiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history ... | Thomas Carlyle | James Wood | The Elements of Optics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history ... | Thomas Carlyle | Isaac Newton | Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history ... | Thomas Carlyle | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I saw Scott's "Waterloo" and "Guy Mannering" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already ... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I saw Scott's "Waterloo" and "Guy Mannering" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already ... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | The Field of Waterloo, A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Mortimer | The British Plutarch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two... | Thomas Carlyle | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two... | Thomas Carlyle | Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to His Son | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never rea... | Thomas Carlyle | Alexander Pope | The Iliad / Odyssey of Homer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never rea... | Thomas Carlyle | Homer | The Iliad / Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never rea... | Thomas Carlyle | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Out of a considerable quantity of garbage which I have allowed myself, at different intervals, to devour, I have only... | Thomas Carlyle | George Crabe | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arr... | Thomas Carlyle | Isaac Newton | Philosophi? Naturalis Principia Mathematica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arr... | Thomas Carlyle | James Wood | The Elements of Optics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arr... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre | Abrege d'astronomie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arr... | Thomas Carlyle | John Keill | Introductio ad veram physicam | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful,... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas or William Belsham | [either Elements of the Philosophy of Mind or Essays in Philosophical Morality] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful,... | Thomas Carlyle | Dugald Stewart | [Introductory essay to Encyclopaedia Britannica] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I hav... | Thomas Carlyle | John Playfair | Dissertation Second: Exhibiting a general View of the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I hav... | Thomas Carlyle | Dugald Stewart | Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were ... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were ... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas M'Crie | Vindication of the Covenanters | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspape... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | The Scotsman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspape... | Thomas Carlyle | [unknown] | The Sale Room | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Having heard some lectures on Spurzheim's ideas] 'I have since looked into the Dr's book, and if possible the case is... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Spurzheim | [work on phrenology] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Qua... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Qua... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading Pascal's "lettres provinciales". None can help admiring his wit & probity. He sustains excellently the ... | Thomas Carlyle | Blaise Pascal | Les Provinciales, ou les lettres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last week I perused von Buch's "travels in Norway & Lapland". Much of his attention is devoted to Mineralogy, of whic... | Thomas Carlyle | Christian Leopold, Baron von Buch | Reise durch Norwegen und Lappland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I took Bail]ly's "histoire d'Astronomie", out of the College library, last time I was over the firth. [He seems] to w... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Sylvain Bailly | Histoire de l'astronomie moderne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We get a "Dumfries Courier" here amongst us. Our third Number reached us a few days ago. It seems M'Darmaid [M'Diarmi... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Dumfries Courier | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks ago, I finished M. Bailly's "histoire de l'Astronomie Modern[e.]" His acquaintance with the science seems... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Sylvain Bailly | Histoire de l'astronomie moderne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'But Dr Chalmers, it would seem, is fearful lest these speculations [on the nature of the universe] lead us away from ... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Chalmers | A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, Viewed in Connection with Modern Astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes &... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Chalmers | [article on paperism in Edinburgh Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes &... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Southey | [article in Quarterly Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes &... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | The Scotsman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my cons... | Thomas Carlyle | William Wallace | [article on Fluxions in Encyclopaedia Britannica] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my cons... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Literary and Statistical Magazine for Scotland | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my cons... | Thomas Carlyle | Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I told you I had seen the "Quarterly Review". You would notice its contents in the newspaper. It is a long time since ... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The other night I sat up till four o'clock, reading Matthew Lewis's "Monk". It is the most stupid & villainous novel ... | Thomas Carlyle | Matthew Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number o... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number o... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Edinburgh Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number o... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Edinburgh observer or Town and Country Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | The History of England during the reigns of James I and Charles I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | Francis Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Some time ago, I bought me a copy of La Rochefoucault. It has been said that the basis of his system is the suppositi... | Thomas Carlyle | Francois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld | Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Some time since, all the world was astonished at the 2nd number of "Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) magazine" - The g... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Coxe | Travels in Switzerland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Coxe | Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | The History of England During the Reigns of James I and Charles I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ... | Thomas Carlyle | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mathematics, I have absolutely never thought on - excepting some trifles from the Ladies' and Gentleman's diary - whic... | Thomas Carlyle | Reuben BURROW | Unknown from 'Ladies' and Gentleman's Diary' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | But the book I am most pleased with is 'cicero de Finibus' - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his mann... | Thomas Carlyle | Cicero | De Finibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standa... | Thomas Carlyle | William Hazlitt | 'Standard Novels' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standa... | Thomas Carlyle | Lewis & Clarke | Travels up the Missouri | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It occurred to me; much about the same time that it would be proper to study Stewart's Essays, Berkel[e]y's principes... | Thomas Carlyle | Sir Isaac Newton | Institutes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have looked into the Belfast Town and Country Almanack - and consulted several cunning men upon the subject - and f... | Thomas Carlyle | anon | Belfast Town & County Almanack | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'With regard to the division of the circle into 360 parts,- I think it cannot be done by elementary Geometry - at leas... | Thomas Carlyle | Sir John Leslie | Elements of Geometry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament. Of course I am ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Thomson | The New Testament. Translated from the Greek, 3 vols | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Soon after my arrival here, I fell to Wallace's fluxions, with might and main. I would study, I thought, with great ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Wallace | 'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I perused your theorems with some attention. They are well worthy of a place in the Courier - though not for the pur... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Mitchell | 'theorems' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little [since I last wrote to you] except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | History of England [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'. | Thomas Carlyle | John Milton | Prose works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'. | Thomas Carlyle | George Fox | Historical Account of the Life, Travels,...of George Fox | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the 'bright city' and rejoiced to find your criticism of it so agreeable to my own. Milman is certainly ... | Thomas Carlyle | Henry Hart Milman | Samor, the Lord of the Bright City | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did [Benjamin Bell] write these verses? If so, he seems young at the art like us, but not without powers of doing be... | Thomas Carlyle | Charles Hughes Terot | Poems | Manuscript: Sheet, Poems included in letter from Jane Baillie Welsh to TC |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron's Magazine or rather Hunt's 'The Liberal' is arrived in town; but they will not sell it - it is so full of Athe... | Thomas Carlyle | Leigh Hunt (EDITOR) | The Liberal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen Dr Ures notice of Leslie's Meteorology, in Brande's Journal? Some one shewed it to me and it seemed a ... | Thomas Carlyle | Andrew Ure | Review of 'Description of Instruments, Designed for Extending and Improving Meteorological Observations' (1820) | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'At present the honest people of "the letters" are much shocked at the appearance of Byron's and Hunt's Magazine "The ... | Thomas Carlyle | Leigh Hunt (EDITOR) | The Liberal | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, The LiberalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have spent a stupid day reading the Abbe de Sade's Memoirs of Petrarch. What a feeble whipster was this Petrarch w... | Thomas Carlyle | Jacques Fracois Paul Alphonse, Abbe de Sade | Memoires pour la vie de Francois Petrarch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is already past twelve o'clock, and I am tired and sleepy; but I cannot go to rest without answering the kind litt... | Thomas Carlyle | Margaret A. Carlyle | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841:
'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841:
'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Browning | Pippa Passes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Meantime I am reading Grubers Wieland: he is about equal to Doctor Joralic our worthy friend: a more learned man, but... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Gottfried Gruber | Christop Martin Wieland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron has sent us a new poem the Age of Bronze: it is short, and pithy - but not at all poetical. Byron may still ea... | Thomas Carlyle | George Gordon Byron | The Age Of Bronze | Print: BookManuscript: LetterUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Spenser these some mornings, while eating my breakfast. He is a dainty little fellow, as ever you saw: I prop... | Thomas Carlyle | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I finished your Musaeus ten days ago: it is a nice little book and will do very well. You shall have it at Had[dingt... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Karl August Musaeus | Volksmahrchen der Deutschen | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you have heard no news lately from the south, it will be fresh intelligence for you that Lawson had a call to Selk... | Thomas Carlyle | | [newspaper] | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished. On the whole he should not have publ... | Thomas Carlyle | Edward Irving | For The Oracles Of God, Four Orations | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a t... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Proofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings' | Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you get Meister; did they get them at Annan? It is slowly and sparingly coming forth here: I see it in the windo... | Thomas Carlyle | | Examiner (Newspaper Chat section) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was very much obliged by the Scotsman you sent me to Foley Place, and the criticism of Meister contained in it - sh... | Thomas Carlyle | | The Scotman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you get the two Examiners I sent you? The last of them was forced into my hand by a news-vender, just as I was m... | Thomas Carlyle | | Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am daily expecting a letter from you on the subject of the Life of Schiller. I have got a copy of his Works beside... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Schiller | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This morning I received a copy of Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Travels), a sort of sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Appre... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I would have answered your letter sooner but for a long series of movements and countermovements I have had to execut... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Meister Wilhelm's Wanderjahre (first volume) | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and del... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | private letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My own Jane!- You are a noble girl; and your true and generous heart shall not lie oppressed anotehr instant under an... | Thomas Carlyle | Jane Baillie Welsh | Letter dated 29th January | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'PS Since I finished this, I have got Alick's letter, and the Courier all in order! Thank Alick and my dear Father fo... | Thomas Carlyle | | The Courier | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a Spaniard here (one of the refugees) who from Catholic has become Protestant, a very honest shrewd little f... | Thomas Carlyle | | Spanish Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Alick, No piece of news that I have heard for a long time has given me more satisfaction than the intelligenc... | Thomas Carlyle | Alexander Carlyle | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday Badams wrote me (from admist the 'wild beasts of Ephesus,' as he calls the new Mining Companies, with whom ... | Thomas Carlyle | Badams | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'He has written to me twice since his departure; he insists that I shall take a little pony of his with all its furnit... | Thomas Carlyle | Badams | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. ... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Paul Friedrich Richter | Leben Fibels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. ... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Paul Friedrich Richter | Herbst-blumine oder gesammelte Wekchen aus Zeitschriften | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of Richter I yet know little; I havelooked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. ... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Paul Friedrich Richter | Die Flegeljahre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French),... | Thomas Carlyle | Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine | Raphael | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French),... | Thomas Carlyle | Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine | Rudolph von Werdenberg | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French),... | Thomas Carlyle | Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine | Tinchen oder die Mannerprobe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read nothing, but half of one German novel, last sunday! Not long ago, all this would have made me miserable; ... | Thomas Carlyle | unknown | [German novel] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is many a weary year since I have been so idle or so happy. I have not done two sheets of Werter yet; I read Richt... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Paul Friedrich Richter | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'How kind, how simple, true and good! Beautifully welcome, in my sombre vacancy here! (Dumfries, Septr, 1868) This Le... | Thomas Carlyle | Jane Baillie Welsh | Letter dated 9 October 1825 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Carlyle to Alfred Tennyson, 7 December 1842:
'I have just been reading your Poems; I have read certain of th... | Thomas Carlyle | Alfred Tennyson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied i... | Thomas Carlyle | John A. Carlyle | Thesis for medical degree "De Mentis Alientione" (On Diseases Of The Mind) | Manuscript: Degree thesis |
| 1800-1849 | I guessed what was detaining your letter: but I scarcely dared to expect it on Saturday. It came in company with a qu... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Proofs | Print: Proofs |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dearest - I found not only a load of Books on Saturday, but eight proof sheets besides; the consideration and alterat... | Thomas Carlyle | Unknown | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A pack of sheets came down on Monday morning, with a long letter from the Bibliophile requiring an alteration in the ... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Title page and preface of 'German Romance' | Print: Title page and prefaceManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'You will never in the world guess what sort of a pastime I have had resourse to in this windbound portion of my voyag... | Thomas Carlyle | Immanuel Kant | The Critique of Pure Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was very much obliged by your copy of Doering's Jean Paul and the manuscript sent along with it; whch tho' too late... | Thomas Carlyle | JMH Doring | Jean Paul Richters Leben | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-... | Thomas Carlyle | Unknown | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The German book is getting praise rather than censure: I was about sending Alick a copy of the last Examiner Newspape... | Thomas Carlyle | Signed as 'Q' | Review of 'German Romance' by Thomas Carlyle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'This day I was in the Advocates Library seeking German Books, and I found (directed by Dr Irving) the first Article i... | Thomas Carlyle | anon | Review of 'German Romance' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jeffrey has sent me a note requesting the Ops Majus by the middle of next month, and enclosing a draft of twenty guin... | Thomas Carlyle | Franz Horn | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Edinr Review is out some time ago; and the 'State of German Literature' has been received with considerable surpr... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas de Quincey | Review of 'State of German Literature' | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Now the other morning Dr Irving shows me the last vol. of Constable's Miscellany, and a most magnificent passage in th... | Thomas Carlyle | George Moir | Preface to 'Constable's Miscellany' vol. 18, Schiller's Thirty Years War, I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [ac]cordingly wrote off to St. Andrews; and the next day, to all the four winds in quest of recommendations. To Go... | Thomas Carlyle | David (dr) Brewster | Recommendation | Manuscript: Letter of recommendation |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are greatly pleased with your sketches of 'German character'; your Oken, your pert Surgeon, your Schelli[n]g &c mu... | Thomas Carlyle | John A. Carlyle | Letter dated 6th Feb, Munich | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Little Crow, I duly received your Munich Letter, and your Proofsheet Package, on two successive Wednesdays; and ... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Carlyle | Package of Proofsheets | Manuscript: Proofsheets |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your sad Messenger is just arrived. I had again been cherishing Hopes, when the day of Hope was clean gone. Compose... | Thomas Carlyle | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Message about Aunt's death | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | '[Thomas] Carlyle saw Scott's greatness in the extracts from the Diary given by Lockhart. The stern critic rightly rec... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | Journal (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Assure Mr Montagu, that his Book was the most delightful I have read for many days. Your hand also was visible in it... | Thomas Carlyle | Basil Montagu | Thoughts on Laughter By a Chancery Barrister | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have got old Ascham, and read a little of him, when I have done work, every evening.' | Thomas Carlyle | Roger Ascham | ?'Toxophilus' and 'The Scholemaster' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you read Sir W Hamilton on Cousin's Metaphysics in the last Edinburgh Review? And what inferences are we to draw... | Thomas Carlyle | Sir William Hamilton | Review of Victor Cousin's 'Cours de Philosophie' (Paris, 1828) in Edinburgh Review, XCIV (OCt 1829), 194-221 | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Briefechsel, a second time, with no little satisfaction; and even today am sending off an Essay on Sc... | Thomas Carlyle | Schiller & Goethe | Correspondence | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read your Anim. Magnetism, and think it among the best in the Number; worthy indeed of a far better place. I ... | Thomas Carlyle | John A. Carlyle | 'Animal Magnetism' | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you know Doven's and Hagen's Hist. of German Poetry? I have seen it in the Edinr College Library, but read only a... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Henrich von der Hagen | Literarischer Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Poesie von der altesten Zeit, bis in das sechzhnte Jarhrundert | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much obliged to you for Tytler, which I have read with pleasure and not without profit: it is a smooth, easy Boo... | Thomas Carlyle | Patrick Fraser Tytler | History of Scotland | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Examiner comes with perfect regularity; and tho' a week old is a great blessing. Continue it, if you can. Nay, ... | Thomas Carlyle | | The Examiner | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.' | Thomas Carlyle | John A. Carlyle | Review of Sir Walter Scott's 'Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, II' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.' | Thomas Carlyle | John A. Carlyle | 'Some passages from the Diary of the late Mr St John Long' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dear Sir,—I have received your beautiful volume, probably the finest bit of typography that ever came before me; an... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Story | The Poetical Works Of Robert Story | Print: Book |