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Record 28840

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
25 Fri. [...] Rode to Cuddesdon with Bruce- to remain there for a fortnight. read Powell's Differential Calculus in aftn & evg [...].
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 25 Nov 1831
Country: England
Time: afternoon
evening
Place: city: Cuddesdon
county: Oxfordshire
   
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:William Ewart Gladstone
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 29 12 1809
Socio-economic group: n/a
Occupation: Student at Oxford University
Religion: Church of England
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: Baden Powell
Title: An elementary treatise on the geometry of curves and curved surfaces :
Genre: Mathematics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1829-30.
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28840  
Source - Print  
  Author: William Gladstone
  Editor: Foot M.R.D.
  Title: The Gladstone Diaries
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1968
  Vol: 1
  Page: 394
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: William Gladstone, Foot M.R.D. (ed.), The Gladstone Diaries (Oxford, 1968), 1, p. 394, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28840, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

Footnote in Foot's edition identifies this text. He suggests 1830 edition. There is no copy at the Hawarden Library.

 

 

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