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Record Number: 24591


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

John Wilson Croker to Lord Stanley, 4 [?14] June 1847: 'I have had communicated to me the pages of a pamphlet, which is in the press, and about to be published in defence of the policy, and still more of the fairness of and consistency of Sir R. Peel's conduct [...] 'When you come to see the pamphlet you will find on p.45, &c, your personal accordance with Sir Robert's free trade measures, and particularly your Canada Corn Bill produced in his behalf. 'The pamphlet is well-written, and in rather a conciliatory tone, and certainly looks like like a move towards re-uniting the party under Sir R. Peel; but there is no argument for, and indeed hardly any palliation of, the particular steps of his proceeding in 1845-6. It [italics]assumes[end italics] that the Irish famine has proved, and that the state of England by and by will further prove, that all he did was [italics]right[end italics], as the writer thinks that he has shown that it was all [italics]fair[end italics].'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 May 1847 and 14 Jun 1847

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

John Wilson Croker

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1780

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Politician / Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

anon

Title:

'The Commercial Policy of Pitt and Peel'

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Politics

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

24591

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Louis J. Jennings

Title:

The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 t0 1830

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1884

Vol:

3

Page:

109

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Louis J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 t0 1830 (London, 1884), 3, p. 109, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=24591, accessed: 19 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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