| Evidence: | 'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work concerning which I shall only observe, in the words of the Auctioneer that it is "well worth any gentleman's perusal" - is the only thing almost that I recollect aught abo[ut.]' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 7 Nov 1818 and 26 Nov 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) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Roscoe |
| Title: | Life of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 vols |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First published Liverpool, 1795, 2 vols. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 6140 | |
| 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: | 150 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, South Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 150, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6140, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from Thomas Carlyle to Robert Mitchell dated 27th November 1818. Pages 147 - 151 in this edition. Dates of reading experience based on the previous letter to Mitchell (dated 6th November) and the current one - Carlyle says that he has read the work between the letters. |
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