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Record 22602

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
MS notes and dates of reading include: "Top of Beamerside while electioneering at Melrose, July 6th, 1868"; p.40: "Weybridge 1872. St. George's Hill, returning from taking Charley and Carry [son and wife] for a row on the Mole"; p.170: "In train to Wells with my father, May 22 1874." Titlepage verso: GO Trevelyan The companion of a lifetime which was never dull in Horace's company." Note in the hand of his son, Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "It was by his bedside when he died."
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1868 and 1928
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:George Otto Trevelyan
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 20 Jul 1838
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: Historian and statesman
Religion: Christian
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: Horace
Title: Works; ed by Macleane
Genre: Classics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, 1858
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22602  
Source - Manuscript Other
  Author: MS notes in book cited below,

Citation: MS notes in book cited below, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22602, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

I have not transcribed all the marginal notes in this book. Locations are various.

 

 

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