Record Number: 4425
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage. Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another opportunity. At any rate the Second volume is not finished yet - and I do not like what I have read of any thing so well as I did the first.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Dec 1817 and 15 Feb 1818
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Kirkcaldy (probably)
Type of Experience(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
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 vols
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details2 Vols, pub. London & Edinburgh 1777
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:4425
Source: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:121
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from Carlyle to Robert Mitchell, dated 16th February 1818, written at Kirkcaldy. Pages 118-122 in this edition.
Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, South Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 121, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4425, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Dates of reading experience are estimate based on the fact that it is the first mention of the work since his last letter to Mitchell. He does not say exactly when or where he reads it.
