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Record Number: 22591


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Many MS dates of reading: "Feb 13 1907 Welcombe"; "Nov 10 1909 Rome (Read in one day)"; "June 1915 Welcombe"; "October 1921 Wallington Have read the Euthyphron 6 times in 15 years." Includes a MS list of "My personal favourites in the dialogues of Plato". MS. notes in ink copied from Macaulay's folio edition of this text; this edition also belonged to Macaulay.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Dec 1903 and Dec 1921

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:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Plato

Title:

Dialogues

Genre:

Classics, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Publication Details

Berlin: Reimer, 1816-1817

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

22591

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Author:

MS notes in text cited below.,

Citation:

MS notes in text cited below., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=22591, accessed: 20 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Several locations are given for reading this text so I have been unable to fill out box 8. I have not transcribed all the MS notes. There is a letter laid in from Henry Jackson, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, dated 1 Dec 1903 recommending certain passages of Plato not strictly philosophical and MS note in hand of GOT refers to a later letter from Jackson recommending more passages (June 7 1915). A letter laid in from Jackson to GOT's daughter Pauline refers to the first.

   
   
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