| Evidence: | 'Having just concluded the first volume of Sismondi's history, and the other not being yet arrived from Edinr, I think I cannot better employ the hour of leisure, which necessarily intervenes between the end of this and the beginning of a fresh employment, than in returning you my thanks for the kind and good-humoured letter which I received last Saturday.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jun 1820 and 7 Jun 1820 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Mainhill, near Eccelefechan | ||||||||||
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| 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, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi |
| Title: | unknown history |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 10361 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 1 | |
| Page: | 259-260 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 259-260, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10361, accessed: 31 March 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from Carlyle to Matthew Allen, dated 7thJune 1830, written at Mainhill. Pages 259-263 in this edition. Dates of reading experience are estimate based on his not having mentioned the book in any previous letter (letter before this was dated 3rd June), and date of current letter. Sismondi wrote several histories (including of the Italian Republic, and of France) - Carlyle does not specify which he is reading. |
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