Record Number: 3451

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Annotations]: Just above the printed words 'A Proposal' Peter Cunningham has added [semi-legible] 'as such of Night' and [legible] '4. Of Young's Night Thoughts 1743'.

Century:

1800-1849, 1850-1899

Date:

unknown

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Peter Cunningham

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1816

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer and bibliographer

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

'A Proposal' [for subscribers to a volume of collected plays]

Genre:

Ephemera, Advertisement for subscribers

Form of Text:

Print: Advertisement

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3451

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Peter Cunningham

Title:

Cunningham's Lives of Eminent Booksellers

Location:

National Library of Scotland

Call No:

John Murray Archive, MS. 42150 (430E)

Page/Folio:

n/a

Citation:

Peter Cunningham, Cunningham's Lives of Eminent Booksellers National Library of Scotland, p. John Murray Archive, MS. 42150 (430E), http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=3451, accessed: 02 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

The NLS was, at the time of writing, in the process of recataloguing the John Murray archive. MS call numbers should therefore be carefully checked at source. This loose leaf is in a folder in the John Murray Archive, of Cunningham's working notes.