| Evidence: | 'I finished your Musaeus ten days ago: it is a nice little book and will do very well. You shall have it at Had[dingto]n whenever you get there, with multifarious advices and palavers.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 10 Jun 1823 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Dunkeld county: Perthshire specific address: Kinnaird House |
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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: | Johann Karl August Musaeus |
| Title: | Volksmahrchen der Deutschen |
| Genre: | Folk-tales / Satire |
| Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | 5 vols (Gotha, 1782 - 86) |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
| Record ID: | 17460 | |
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| 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: | 2 | |
| Page: | 378 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 2, p. 378, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17460, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from TC to Jane Baillie Welsh dated 11 June 1823, written at Kinnaird House. Pages 375-379 in this edition. The details of the work read are given in Editor's notes to TC's letter to JBW dated 11 May 1823 (page 355 in this edition). Date range of reading based on TC's reference here to finishing it 10 days ago (1st June) and his letter 25 May in which he refers to the book arriving. |
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