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Record 11814

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'In a letter addressed to me, dated Newcastle Jan 5 1829 from his son, Robert Elliot Benick, thanking me for a copy of 'The Scarborough Souvenir', he writes "this would have been done sooner by my late lamented father had he been able to have visited Scarborough, as he once intended to have done last summer".'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1829 and 31 Jan 1829
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: other location: Home, Scarborough
   
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 Cole
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 3 Oct 1792
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Publisher / bookseller
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Robert Benick
Title: letter
Genre: Letter
Form of Text: Manuscript: Letter
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11814  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: John Cole
  Title: An account of the life of John Cole of Scarborough (started Scarborough 1829)
  Location: York Minster Archive
  Call no: Add Mss 153/4
  Page/folio: p. 614

Citation: John Cole, An account of the life of John Cole of Scarborough (started Scarborough 1829) York Minster Archive, p. Add Mss 153/4, p. p. 614, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11814, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

John Cole kept diaries throughout his life - and then used the diaries to produce a manuscript 'An Account of the life of John Cole of Scarborough' (started in 1829 - 18 volumes). Much of the substance of the MS is based on his diaries (and appears for much of the MS to be copied direct from his diaries). The original diaries are apparently no longer extant.

 

 

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