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Record Number: 9249


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790, 'at night': 'While I write, Mr. Lysons has been turning over Le Neve's "Monumenta Anglicana," and has found that [italics]nine[end italics] aldermen of London died in one year. I concluded that it must have been in one of the years of the Plague. No, it was in 1711.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

29 Jul 1790

Country:

England

Time

n/anight

Place:

city: Twickenham
specific address: Strawberry Hill

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:

Mr Lysons

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

unknown

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

John le Neve

Title:

Monumenta Anglicana: Inscriptions on the Monuments of Eminent Persons deceased from 1700 to 1715

Genre:

Biography, Arts / architecture, Antiquarianism

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ


Source Information:

Record ID:

9249

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Lady Theresa Lewis

Title:

Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry, from the year 1783 to 1852

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1865

Vol:

1

Page:

209

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry, from the year 1783 to 1852 (London, 1865), 1, p. 209, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=9249, accessed: 02 May 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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