Evidence: | 'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh Hunt are quite delicious pray may I ask if the Indian Officer is from the same pen of masterly humour as the article on Cookery? I wish Z. had left out the allusion to primrose and Mildmay altogether all the rest is in his best genuine stile The Shepherd's dog is also very well indeed Hoy was my uncle the anecdote is quite true'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 20 Jan 1818 and 31 Jan 1818 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | specific address: Eltrieve Lake | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | James Hogg |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | Nov 1770 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | shepherd / farmer and author |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Laidlaw |
Title: | 'Sagacity of a Shepherd's Dog' |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 2 (January 1818) |
Provenance: | owned sent by Blackwood |
Record ID: | 18825 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Hogg | |
Editor: | Gillian Hughes | |
Title: | Collected Letters of James Hogg, The | |
Place of Publication: | Edinburgh | |
Date of Publication: | 2004 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 329 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2004), I, p. 329, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18825, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
Letter to William Blackwood. |
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