Record Number: 28633
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Thank your kind friend and host for his little Book, great part of which I read that afternoon: but my Mother got it and carried it down with her, she seemed to so anxious I could not refuse. In my humble opinion, if the common interpretation of the Bible is to be followed, our friend is perfectly right, nay indubitably and palpably so: at all events, the gainsayers are utterly, hopelessly, and stone-blindly wrong. My Mother who is a better judge than I, declared it to be soundest doctrine, often preached in her hearing[.]'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 10 Apr 1830 and May 1830
Country:Scotland
Timeafternoon
Place:county: Dumfries
specific address: Craigenputtoch
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Orthodox and Catholic Doctrine of Our Lord's Human Nature
Genre:Other religious
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsPublished Janaury 1830
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28633
Source: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:5
Page:98
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C. R. Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 5, p. 98, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28633, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from Thomas Carlyle to John A. Carlyle, dated 1st May 1830, written at Craigenputtoch. Information about the work Carlyle refers to is given in the Editor's notes. The book was written in reply to J. A. Haldane's 'Refutation of Mr Irving's Heretical Doctrine' (1828); this controversy was to lead first to Irving's exclusion from the Scottish National Church, though he remained a minister (May 1832), and then to his deposition by the Annan Presbytery, as a result of which he was declared neither a minister nor a member of the Church of Scotland (March 1833). Date range is an estimate based on date of this letter and the date of TC's previous letter to John A. Carlyle (dated 10th April).