Evidence: | 'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and delivered me a little blue parcel, requiring for it a ntoe of delivery. I opened it, and found two pretty stitched little books, and a letter from - Goethe! I copy it from the fractur [Gothic script] hand it was written in, and send it for your edification. The patriarchal style of it pleases me much.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 10 Dec 1824 and 17 Dec 1824 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | afternoon | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: 23 Southampton Street |
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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: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Title: | private letter |
Genre: | Letters |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | N/A |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 18982 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Carlyle | |
Editor: | CR Sanders | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
Place of Publication: | Durham, North Carolina | |
Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
Vol: | 3 | |
Page: | 225-226 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, CR Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 3, p. 225-226, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18982, accessed: 01 June 2023 |
Taken from letter from Thomas Carlyle to John A. Carlyle dated 18 December 1824, written at 23 Southampton Street. Date range is estimate based on date of this letter. |
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