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Record 11318

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I have translated a portion of Schiller's History of the thirty years war (it is all about Gustavus and the fellow-soldados of Dugald Dalgetty your dearly-beloved friend); and sent it off, with a letter introduced by Tait the Review-bookseller, to Longman and Co London.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Friedrich Schiller
Title: Geschichte des dreissigj?hrigen Kriegs
Genre: History
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: First published 1791 - 1793
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11318  
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: 1
  Page: 301
  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. 301, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11318, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Taken from letter from Carlyle to Alexander Carlyle, dated 2nd January 1821, written at Edinburgh. Pages 299 - 302 in this edition.

 

 

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