Evidence: | The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849:
'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I think him the most truthful writer and fuller of information upon any subject than any other author [...] He is the only man of eminence of my time that I unfortunately was not acquainted with; I did not then appreciate his merits. Since I have turned my attention to agriculture, I look upon him as the real source of information upon all matters [...] I have a duplicate of his works, one at Lowther and another in London, and some odd ones both at Barnes and Whitehaven. His agricultural tours in France and Italy I consider the only works that give an intelligible account of those countries.
'His tour in Ireland has given me the idea that his views of Ireland were nearer the truth than any other work. When I received your letter yesterday, I was just starting to make a journey with Mr. Parker to look at some land that he had recommended in his northern tour seventy years ago to be cultivated, and drained, and whch is now in the same state as it was at the time he wrote. We found it exactly as he described it [...] I have read everything as regards agriculture, from Xenophon and Virgil, to Mechi and Huxtable. There is everything in Arthur Young [...] His "Farmer's Calendar," which is for the management [of a farm] advising what to do each month by month, is the standard book of all farmers at present, and has gone through many editions. I have three different editions of it.' |
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Reader: | Earl of Lonsdale |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Arthur Young |
Title: | Travels in France and Italy During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 |
Genre: | Social Science, Geography / Travel, Agriculture / horticulture / husbandry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 24603 | |
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Editor: | Louis J. Jennings | |
Title: | The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 t0 1830 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1884 | |
Vol: | 3 | |
Page: | 201-202; 202 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Louis J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 t0 1830 (London, 1884), 3, p. 201-202; 202, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24603, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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