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Record Number: 22627


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Many marginal notes, including dates of reading: May 27, 1919 and June 22-July 1 1923. "Too much Hohanzollen. Without that family these Berliners might have been quiet, decent people enough." Also, on flyleaf: "Published 1886. See p. 145". Text on p. 145 has: "For fifteen years now we have enjoyed peace and all its blessings, and this we owe to German trustwowrthiness." George Otto Trevelyan writes beside this: "So it was 1886. Bismarck was born in 1815."

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1919 and 1923

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:

n/a

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:

Julius Stinde

Title:

The Bucholz family. Second Part. Sketches of Berlin life

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: George Bell and Sons, 1887

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

22627

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Author:

MS notes in book cited below.,

Citation:

MS notes in book cited below., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=22627, accessed: 26 April 2024


Additional Comments:

I have not transcribed all the notes in this book.

   
   
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