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Record 14092

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Up, and to the office - where, among other businesses, Mr Evelyn's proposition about public Infirmarys was read and agreed on, he being there.'
Century: 1600-1699
Date: 20 Feb 1666
Country: England
Time: morning
Place: city: London
specific address: Whitehall
other location: at the office
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Listener:Samuel Pepys
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 23 Feb 1633
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Admiralty, Clerk of the Acts
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Read aloud but unsure by whom. Others, apart from Pepys, were present, but the only other named was the author, John Evelyn, Commissioner of the sick and wounded.
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Evelyn
Title: [proposition about public infirmaries]
Genre: Medicine
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 14092  
Source - Print  
  Author: Samuel Pepys
  Editor: Robert Latham
  Title: The diary of Samuel Pepys
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1972
  Vol: 7
  Page: 49
  Additional comments: Co-editor William Matthews

Citation: Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys (London, 1972), 7, p. 49, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14092, accessed: 28 March 2024

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