Record Number: 24594

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847: 'The cotton market will ocupy a good deal of attention [...] Ferguson and Taylor's "Manchester Monthly Trade Circular," which I have received to-day, after generally observing "that at no former period in the course of a long experience had they ever known the business of that [?cotton] market so embarrassed as at this moment," note in their postscript that for money the terms are: One and a quarter per cent. for cash in ten days!"'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

6 Oct 1847

Country:

England

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Lord George Bentinck

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1802

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

Member of Parliament (Conservative leader in House of Commons)

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Manchester Monthly Trade Circular

Genre:

Social Science, Politics, Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Ferguson and Taylor, September/October 1847

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

24594

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:

145

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. 145, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=24594, accessed: 02 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None