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Record 5373

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"To the Editor, Dear Sir, I have just been looking through some Gazettes intending them for salvage, & came across a note about John Bedford Leno. I am sending to you this autobiography of him hoping it will be of some interest to you. It was given to my mother, Mrs Tucker, by Mrs Sophie Christian, who I think was his niece."
Century: 1900-1945
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Harefield
county: Middlesex
specific address: 264 Northwood Rd
   
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:D Winwright
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Uxbridge Gazette
Genre: Ephemera, Appeal for information about John Bedford Leno
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5373  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: D Winwright
  Title: Letter to the Editor of the Gazette
  Location: Hillingdon Local Studies, Archives and Museum Service
  Call no: MUS CUP 1 Leno Massey Papers
  Page/folio: loose

Citation: D Winwright, Letter to the Editor of the Gazette Hillingdon Local Studies, Archives and Museum Service, p. MUS CUP 1 Leno Massey Papers, p. loose, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5373, accessed: 30 April 2024

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