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Record 22627

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Many marginal notes, including dates of reading: May 27, 1919 and June 22-July 1 1923. "Too much Hohanzollen. Without that family these Berliners might have been quiet, decent people enough." Also, on flyleaf: "Published 1886. See p. 145". Text on p. 145 has: "For fifteen years now we have enjoyed peace and all its blessings, and this we owe to German trustwowrthiness." George Otto Trevelyan writes beside this: "So it was 1886. Bismarck was born in 1815."
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1919 and 1923
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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: 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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Julius Stinde
Title: The Bucholz family. Second Part. Sketches of Berlin life
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: London: George Bell and Sons, 1887
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22627  
Source - Manuscript Other
  Author: MS notes in book cited below.,

Citation: MS notes in book cited below., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22627, accessed: 16 April 2024

Additional comments:

I have not transcribed all the notes in this book.

 

 

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