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Record 5436

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"It so happened that a retired Scotch physician, who had settled in the town, chanced to read this notice, and, interested in all related to his gifted countryman [Burns], timidly asked if he would be allowed admission [to a Burns' Night supper organised by the Falcon Harmonic Society]."
Century: 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: county: Middlesex
   
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:a Scotch physician
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: physician
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Falcon Harmonic Society
Title: Notice of a Burns Supper
Genre: Ephemera
Form of Text: Print: Poster
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5436  
Source - Print  
  Author: John Bedford Leno
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Aftermath: with Autobiography of the Author, John Bedford Leno
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1892
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 20
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: John Bedford Leno, The Aftermath: with Autobiography of the Author, John Bedford Leno (London, 1892), p. 20, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5436, accessed: 01 May 2024

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