| Evidence: | I guessed what was detaining your letter: but I scarcely dared to expect it on Saturday. It came in company with a quarter of a volume of Proofs, or I should have answered it yesterday. But the villainous sheets kept me working till midnight; and now I am to be busy beyond all measure for a week or more. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 18 Mar 1826 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening night |
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| Place: | specific address: Hoddam Hill | ||||||||||
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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: | Thomas Carlyle |
| Title: | Proofs |
| Genre: | n/a |
| Form of Text: | Print: Proofs |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 23051 | |
| 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: | 4 | |
| Page: | 62 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, CR Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 4, p. 62, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=23051, accessed: 06 June 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from TC to Jane Baillie Welsh, dated 20 March 1826, written at Hoddam Hill. Pages 62-63 in this edition. The proofs are probably of 'Life of Goethe'. |
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