Evidence: | Sir Robert Peel to John Murray, 7 July 1840:
'I forgot to thank you for the last edition of the Handbook, but I have found leisure to look into
it, and have read many parts of it with great interest. It is really a useful and amusing work
for those who do not travel. Do not you think that a very interesting work might be written, to
be entitled, "A Historical Account of the Celebrated Villas in the Neighbourhood of London? I
mean rather the villas that [italics]have[end italics] been, rather than those that now exist
[makes various suggestions of villas for inclusion] [...] Perhaps I overrate the interest with
which such a book would be read. I certainly do not, if it would equal that with which I myself
read the account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris, remarkable in history, but the traces
of many of which are fast fading away'. |
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Reader: | Sir Robert Peel |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Politician |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | 'account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris' |
Genre: | History, Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 27447 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Samuel Smiles | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1891 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 447 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray (London, 1891), 2, p. 447, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27447, accessed: 01 May 2024 |
Not clear whether or not this the same text as the 'Handbook.' |
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