| Evidence: | A rare thing this literature or love of fame or notoriety which accompanies it. Here is Mr H.M. [Henry Mackenzie] on the very brink of human dissolution as actively anxious about it as if the curtain must not soon be closed on that and every thing else...No man is less known from his writings. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 6 Dec 1825 | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Walter Scott |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 15 Aug 1771 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Novelist, poet and lawyer. |
| 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 |
| Author: | Henry Mackenzie |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 27311 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Walter Scott | |
| Editor: | W.E.K. Anderson | |
| Title: | The Journal of Sir Walter Scott | |
| Place of Publication: | Edinburgh | |
| Date of Publication: | 1998 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 32-33 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Walter Scott, W.E.K. Anderson (ed.), The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh, 1998), p. 32-33, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27311, accessed: 31 May 2023 | |
| Diary entry for Tuesday 6 December 1825. No texts were mentioned by the reader but the footnote on page 32 reads, 'Henry Mackenzie who, according to Lockhart, had been consulting Sir Walter about collecting his own juvenille poety, and who apparently intended Scott to write his life.' |
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