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Record 22604

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
MS notes and marks throughout, including: "May 2 1919. Exquisite book! I seem to hear my dear friend [Henry James] talk, - oh so slowly - as we stroll arm in arm in the Warwickshire meadows which he loved so long and well - as I loved him, and he me". On t-p: "Trevelyan Welcombe"
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 2 May 1919
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Welcombe
county: Warwickshire
   
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:George Otto Trevelyan
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 20 Jul 1838
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: Historian and statesman
Religion: Christian
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: Henry James
Title: Portraits of places
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1884
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22604  
Source - Manuscript Other
  Author: MS note in book cited below,

Citation: MS note in book cited below, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22604, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

I have not transcribed all the marginal marks in this book.

 

 

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