Evidence: | Alfred Tennyson to John Forster, 29 March 1854:
'I understand from Archibald Peel that you are aggrieved at my not writing to you [...] A reason for my not writing much is the bad condition of my right eye which quite suddenly came on as I was reading or trying to read small Persian text. You know perhaps how very minute in some of those Eastern tongues are the differences of letters: a little dot more or less: in a moment, after a three hours' hanging over this scratchy text, my right eye became filled with great masses of floating blackness, and the other eye similarly affected tho' not so badly. I am in a great fear about them, and think of coming up to town about them'. |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1854 and 29 Mar 1854 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Isle of Wight specific address: Farringford |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Alfred Tennyson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 6 Aug 1809 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | Persian grammar |
Genre: | Textbook / self-education, Reference / General works |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21471 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Hallam Tennyson | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1897 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 373 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (London, 1897), 1, p. 373, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21471, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Source author notes on p.374: 'my father [...] had hurt his eyes by poring over a small-printed Persian Grammar [...] this with Hafiz and other Persian books had to be hidden away, for he had "seen the Persian letters stalking like giants round the walls of his room."' |
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