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Record 5717

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
H. J. Jackson notes handwritten insertion of names of persons identified only by initials in H. Giles's copy of B. L. Putnam Weale, Indiscreet Letters from Peking (an "alleged eyewitness account of the siege of Peking in 1900"); Giles also places question marks beside passages of "'doubtful historical value', as explained in another note by him in the text.
Century: 1900-1945
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:H. Giles
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Unknown
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
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: B. L. Putnam Weale
Title: Indiscreet Letters from Peking
Genre: History, Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 6th ed. London: Hurst & Blackett, [1907?]
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5717  
Source - Print  
  Author: H. J. Jackson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
  Place of Publication: New Haven
  Date of Publication: 2001
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 271 n.22
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 271 n.22, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5717, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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