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Record Number: 3415


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Your kind present of Andrew Lang's two volumes has just reached me, and from what I have gleaned by a glimpse of the plates wh. I have opened, I have an intellectual treat for store this evening & subsequent nights'.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

23 Oct 1890

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

Hampshire
Gosport
Anglesey

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:

S.P. Oliver

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Andrew Lang

Title:

Life, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote

Genre:

Biography, Autobiog / Diary, Letters

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Blackwood, 1890; 2 vols

Provenance

borrowed (private library)


Source Information:

Record ID:

3415

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

S.P. Oliver

Title:

Blackwood Correspondence Book

Location:

National Library of Scotland

Call No:

MS 4558

Page/Folio:

227r

Citation:

S.P. Oliver, Blackwood Correspondence Book National Library of Scotland, p. MS 4558, p. 227r, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=3415, accessed: 16 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Oliver had only glanced into the book, and thus read a few pages at most, at the time of writing.

   
   
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