| Evidence: | 'I found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read it again, a message from a distant planet, with its strange, sonorous, processional language. "Willing to come into residence": you didn't go and stay, you went into [italics] residence [end italics]!' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1938 and 1 Oct 1939 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening: around 7pm | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Glasgow location in dwelling: at the table, whilst eating |
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| Reader: | Ralph Glasser |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 3 Apr 1916 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | schoolboy or labourer |
| Religion: | Jewish |
| Country of origin: | Lithuania |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | [unknown] |
| Title: | [acceptance letter from Oxford University] |
| Genre: | letter |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 20308 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Ralph Glasser | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Growing up in the Gorbals | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1986 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 98 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Ralph Glasser, Growing up in the Gorbals (London, 1986), p. 98, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20308, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
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