| Evidence: | 'You have to answer for the sin of keeping me almost two hours from "Planta's history of the Helvetic confederacy" - which is a small [/] sin it must be owned, the said Planta being (under favour) little better than a conceited dolt, and his "history" a Gazette in 1000 pages - of quarto letter-press- ' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 14 Apr 1819 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh specific address: 15 Carnegie Street |
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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: | Joseph Planta |
| Title: | History of the Helvetic Confederacy |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First published London, 1807, 2 vols |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 7529 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 1 | |
| Page: | 177-8 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 177-8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7529, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from Carlyle to Thomas Murray, dated 14th April 1819, written at 15 Carnegie St, Edinburgh. Pages 175 - 178 in this edition. Information about the work are given in the editor's notes. |
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