Evidence: | 'I found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read it again, a message from a distant planet, with its strange, sonorous, processional language. "Willing to come into residence": you didn't go and stay, you went into [italics] residence [end italics]!' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1938 and 1 Oct 1939 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | evening: around 7pm | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Glasgow location in dwelling: at the table, whilst eating |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Ralph Glasser |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 3 Apr 1916 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | schoolboy or labourer |
Religion: | Jewish |
Country of origin: | Lithuania |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | [acceptance letter from Oxford University] |
Genre: | letter |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 20308 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Ralph Glasser | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Growing up in the Gorbals | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1986 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 98 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Ralph Glasser, Growing up in the Gorbals (London, 1986), p. 98, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20308, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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