| Evidence: | 'After an arduous str[uggle] with sundry historians of grea[t and] small renown I sit down to answer the much-valued epistle of my friend. Doubtless you are disposed to grumble that I have been so long in doing so; but I have an argument in store for you.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 7 Dec 1817 and 15 Feb 1818 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Kirkcaldy (probably) | ||||||||||
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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) |
None given |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | various |
| Title: | [histories] |
| Genre: | History, Letter |
| Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 4420 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Editor: | C R Sanders | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
| Place of Publication: | Durham, South Carolina | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 118 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Robert Mitchell to Thomas Carlyle dated 6th December 1817. |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, South Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 118, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4420, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| Editor's note states that he presumes that the letter that Carlyle refers to is that of the 6th December 1817 - but it is clearly not definitively so. Dates of reading experience given above are estimate based on date that the letter ro Carlyle was written and the date of Carlyle's reply. |
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