| Evidence: | 'With regard to reading, you would think I have enough of time upon my hands at present: yet the truth is, I have often read more, almost never studied less!... There is Jameson with his most crude theories - his orders Mammalia, Digitala & fencibles of gli[illegible]rac & bruta with [chi[sel]-shaped foreteeth && grieves me every day.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 27 Nov 1818 and 8 Jan 1819 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh | ||||||||||
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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: | Robert Jameson |
| Title: | Unknown |
| Genre: | Science, Natural history |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 6679 | |
| 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: | 158 | |
| 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. 158, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6679, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Taken from letter from Carlyle to James Johnston dated8th January 1819, written at Edinburgh. Pages 155-159 in this edition. Dates of experience are an estimate based on a previous reference to another work in the list of this letter. The work read is not specified; no reference in editor's notes. |
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