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Record Number: 6464


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am very much obliged to you, for your transcriptions and observations from Pliny; as you say, I should never find time to read the book. What stores of knowledge do I lose, by my incapacity of reading, and by my having used myself to write, till I can do nothing else, nor hardly that'.

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1750 and 31 Dec 1750

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:

Samuel Richardson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 Aug 1689

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

printer and author

Religion:

unknown

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:

Pliny the Elder

Title:

[observations and transcriptions from work]

Genre:

Classics, Natural history

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown, transcriptions by Susanna Highmore

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

6464

Source:

Print

Author:

Samuel Richardson

Editor:

John Carroll

Title:

Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1964

Vol:

n/a

Page:

160

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Samuel Richardson, John Carroll (ed.), Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson (Oxford, 1964), p. 160, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=6464, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Letter to Susanna Highmore, 1750?

   
   
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