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Record 19920

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'He has written to me twice since his departure; he insists that I shall take a little pony of his with all its furniture; ride home on it thro' the Peak country in Derbyshire, and keep the steed in remembrance of him.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 3 Mar 1825
Country: London
Time: n/a
Place: city: Birmingham
   
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: London
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
 n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Badams
Title: Letter
Genre: n/a
Form of Text: Manuscript: Letter
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19920  
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: 3
  Page: 297
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 3, p. 297, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19920, accessed: 01 June 2023

Additional comments:

Taken from letter from Carlyle to John A. Carlyle dated 7th March 1825, written at Birmingham. Pages 296-300 in this edition. See also TC's letter to Alexander Carlyle dated 4th March 1825 (pp. 291-295) for another reference to the same letter. It is not clear exactly which member of the Badams family Carlyle is referring to.

 

 

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