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Record 24266

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'I am very much obliged to you for the specimen which you have sent me of Horace Walpole's letters to Lord Hertford, which I return. I have been very much amused by it, but [...] I believe Horace Walpole to have been as bad a man as ever lived; I cannot call him a violent party man, he had not virtue enough to be so; he was the most sensuous and selfish of mortals [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Aug 1824 and 23 Aug 1824
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:Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1770
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Prime Minister, Great Britain
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: Horace Walpole
Title: letters to Lord Hertford
Genre: Politics
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: borrowed (other)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 24266  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Louis L. Jennings
  Title: The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of The Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.,D., F.R.S.
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1884
  Vol: 1
  Page: 270
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Louis L. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of The Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.,D., F.R.S. (London, 1884), 1, p. 270, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24266, accessed: 29 March 2024

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