| Evidence: | 'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not formed upon the review but upon his just having sent me two books of his, one on Copyright & one called Washington Adams. As he was polite to me 20 years ago I ought to have acknowledged them; but after reading, I found it quite impossible to say anything civil. He seemed to me to be both silly & impertinent. But you need not tell me anything of him; for I guess I know the animal sufficiently.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 1884 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Leslie Stephen |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 28 Nov 1832 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Literary critic, historian, journalist, biographer |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Richard Grant White |
| Title: | [on Copyright] |
| Genre: | Law |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4013 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Leslie Stephen | |
| Editor: | John Bicknell | |
| Title: | The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol. 2 1882-1904 | |
| Place of Publication: | Ohio State University Press | |
| Date of Publication: | 2 | |
| Vol: | 1996 | |
| Page: | 310 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Stephen to Charles Eliot Norton (13/4/1884). |
| Citation: | Leslie Stephen, John Bicknell (ed.), The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol. 2 1882-1904 (Ohio State University Press, 2), 1996, p. 310, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4013, accessed: 28 November 2023 | |
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