Record Number: 18824
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh Hunt are quite delicious pray may I ask if the Indian Officer is from the same pen of masterly humour as the article on Cookery? I wish Z. had left out the allusion to primrose and Mildmay altogether all the rest is in his best genuine stile The Shepherd's dog is also very well indeed Hoy was my uncle the anecdote is quite true'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 20 Jan 1818 and 31 Jan 1818
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:specific address: Eltrieve Lake
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:Nov 1770
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:shepherd / farmer and author
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anonymous poem and articles
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsBlackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 2 (January 1818)
Provenanceowned
sent by Blackwood
Source Information:
Record ID:18824
Source:James Hogg
Editor:Gillian Hughes
Title:Collected Letters of James Hogg, The
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Date of Publication:2004
Vol:I
Page:329
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2004), I, p. 329, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18824, accessed: 25 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Letter to William Blackwood.
