| Evidence: | 'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over the inflated work of 'Squire Bristed on "America and her resources". "Vivacity", therefore, on my part, is quite out of the question-' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 31 May 1819 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | morning afternoon |
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| Place: | city: Mainhill | ||||||||||
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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: | John Bristed |
| Title: | America and her Resources |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First pub 1818. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 7531 | |
| 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: | 178 | |
| 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. 178, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7531, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from Carlyle to Robert Mitchell, dated 31st May 1819, written at Mainhill. Pages 178 - 180 in this edition. Information about the work are given in the editor's notes, which also state that 'Norton says that Bristed was a clergyman of the Church of England who had settled in America and that his book made some noise at the time.' |
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