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Record 24274

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 26 March 1826: 'I enclose a letter for your funny namesake and kinsman, whose work entertains me very much.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1826 and 26 Mar 1826
Country: n/a
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:Walter Scott
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1771
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: T. Crofton Croker
Title: Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (vol. 1)
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Geography / Travel, Astrology / alchemy / occult, mythology
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1826
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 24274  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Louis L. Jennings
  Title: The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of The Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.,D., F.R.S.
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1884
  Vol: 1
  Page: 319 and n.
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Louis L. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of The Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.,D., F.R.S. (London, 1884), 1, p. 319 and n., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24274, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

Text and author identified in note on p.319 in source.

 

 

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