Record Number: 11520
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'
Century:1850-1899
Date:14 Dec 1857
Country:n/a
Timen/a
Place:other location: on board HMS Pelorus, near Ceylon
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:1831
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:Lieutenant Royal Navy
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:n/a
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[lives of Henry VIII's wives - see note below]
Genre:History
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:11520
Source:Manuscript
Author:Albert H.W. Battiscombe
Title:Journal of H.M.S Pelorus 21, August 1st 1857 to March 11th 1859
Location:Royal Naval Museum
Call No:1976/110(1)
Page/Folio:p. 47
Citation:Albert H.W. Battiscombe, Journal of H.M.S Pelorus 21, August 1st 1857 to March 11th 1859 Royal Naval Museum, p. 1976/110(1), p. p. 47, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=11520, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Not positively identified, though could be either Les Six Femmes de Henry VIII. Scenes historiques by Adolphe S. Empis, 2 tom. Paris, [1854.], or Memoirs of Henry the Eighth of England: with the fortunes, fates, and characters of his six wives by William Henry Herbert; BL copy of which is dated New York, 1858, but this work was published by 1856, as testified by a (bad) review in The United States Democratic review, Volume 37, Issue 5 (May 1856), pp. 431-3. Making of America Cornell University, accessed: 23rd February 2001 http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=AGD1642-0037-83
