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Record 16499

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'All the while I am writing now my head is running about the Tropics: in the morning I go and gaze at Palm trees in the hot-house and come home and read Humboldt: my enthusiasm is so great that I cannot hardly sit still on my chair.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Until: 28 Apr 1831
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Cambridge
   
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:Charles Darwin
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 12 Feb 1809
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: scientist and writer
Religion: atheist
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Humboldt
Title: unknown
Genre: Unknown
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16499  
Source - Manuscript Other
  Author: Darwin Correspondence Project: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-98.html,

Citation: Darwin Correspondence Project: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-98.html, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16499, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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