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Record 3451

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[Annotations]: Just above the printed words 'A Proposal' Peter Cunningham has added [semi-legible] 'as such of Night' and [legible] '4. Of Young's Night Thoughts 1743'.
Century: 1800-1849, 1850-1899
Date: unknown
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:Peter Cunningham
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1816
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer and bibliographer
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: 'A Proposal' [for subscribers to a volume of collected plays]
Genre: Ephemera, Advertisement for subscribers
Form of Text: Print: Advertisement
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3451  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: Peter Cunningham
  Title: Cunningham's Lives of Eminent Booksellers
  Location: National Library of Scotland
  Call no: John Murray Archive, MS. 42150 (430E)
  Page/folio: n/a

Citation: Peter Cunningham, Cunningham's Lives of Eminent Booksellers National Library of Scotland, p. John Murray Archive, MS. 42150 (430E), http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3451, accessed: 01 May 2024

Additional comments:

The NLS was, at the time of writing, in the process of recataloguing the John Murray archive. MS call numbers should therefore be carefully checked at source. This loose leaf is in a folder in the John Murray Archive, of Cunningham's working notes.

 

 

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