| Evidence: | 'If you have heard no news lately from the south, it will be fresh intelligence for you that Lawson had a call to Selkirk, which as I learn from this day's newspaper (after his opinion faintly declared to the contrary) the Synod compelled him to decline.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 21 Sep 1823 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Nr. 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: | |
| Title: | [newspaper] |
| Genre: | Newspaper |
| Form of Text: | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17498 | |
| 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: | 2 | |
| Page: | 437 | |
| 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. 437, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17498, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Taken from letter from TC to James Johnston dated 21 September 1823, written at Kinnaird House. Pages 435 - 438 in this edition. Editor's note states that he is referring to Andrew Lawson. See also Carlyle's letter to JAC, dated 29 March 1820. |
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