| Evidence: | 'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 14 Dec 1857 | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: on board HMS Pelorus, near Ceylon | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Albert Battiscombe |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1831 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | Lieutenant Royal Navy |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | [unknown] |
| Title: | [lives of Henry VIII's wives - see note below] |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 11520 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | |
| Author: | Albert H.W. Battiscombe | |
| Title: | Journal of H.M.S Pelorus 21, August 1st 1857 to March 11th 1859 | |
| Location: | Royal Naval Museum | |
| Call no: | 1976/110(1) | |
| Page/folio: | p. 47 |
| Citation: | Albert H.W. Battiscombe, Journal of H.M.S Pelorus 21, August 1st 1857 to March 11th 1859 Royal Naval Museum, p. 1976/110(1), p. p. 47, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11520, accessed: 25 September 2023 | |
| Not positively identified, though could be either Les Six Femmes de Henry VIII. Scenes historiques by Adolphe S. Empis, 2 tom. Paris, [1854.], or Memoirs of Henry the Eighth of England: with the fortunes, fates, and characters of his six wives by William Henry Herbert; BL copy of which is dated New York, 1858, but this work was published by 1856, as testified by a (bad) review in The United States Democratic review, Volume 37, Issue 5 (May 1856), pp. 431-3. Making of America Cornell University, accessed: 23rd February 2001 http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=AGD1642-0037-83 |
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