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Record Number: 24624


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

John Wilson Croker to John Murray jr, 14 February 1857: 'I have been so very ill as to have been unable until yesterday to look at the Raglan article in the last Quarterly [...] In reading it, however, I find a statement that the Duke of Wellington "had been often heard to say in after years that there were two or three periods of the battle of Waterloo when he thought it all over with us." I am very curious to know that reviewer's authority for this statement [discusses article further, referring to other accounts of battle and Welington] [...] 'I write with difficulty and in great pain, but I am anxious to record my evidence on this particular point which had from the first excited my surrpise and curiosity'.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

13 Feb 1857

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


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:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

article on Duke of Wellington

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, History, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In the Quarterly Review

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

24624

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:

372-373

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. 372-373, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=24624, accessed: 19 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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