| Evidence: | 'On the other hand, the most pleasurable thing, which has befallen me was receiving two packets, from England, in the same night: the one a letter of fifteen pages from Mr Baillie; the other a collection of autographs from his Opposite. What do you think? among these were a letter from Goethe, and a fragment of a letter from Byron!' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 21 Dec 1824 and 3 Jan 1825 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Haddington specific address: Family home |
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| Reader: | Jane Baillie Welsh |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 14 Jul 1801 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer Daughter of doctor - no profession |
| Occupation: | none |
| Religion: | Christian |
| 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: | Various |
| Title: | Autographs |
| Genre: | Autographs |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Autographs |
| Publication details: | N/A |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
| Record ID: | 19871 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jane Baillie Welsh | |
| 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: | 3 | |
| Page: | 252 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jane Baillie Welsh, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 3, p. 252, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19871, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| Taken from letter from JBW to Eliza Stodart dated 18 January 1825, written at Haddington. Pages 251-254 in this edition. Date of reading experience based on JBW's reply to Thomas Carlyle's letter of 20th December in which she thanks him for sending the Autographs to her. |
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