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Record 6464

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I am very much obliged to you, for your transcriptions and observations from Pliny; as you say, I should never find time to read the book. What stores of knowledge do I lose, by my incapacity of reading, and by my having used myself to write, till I can do nothing else, nor hardly that'.
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Jan 1750 and 31 Dec 1750
Country: England
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:Samuel Richardson
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 19 Aug 1689
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: printer and author
Religion: unknown
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: Pliny the Elder
Title: [observations and transcriptions from work]
Genre: Classics, Natural history
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown, transcriptions by Susanna Highmore
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 6464  
Source - Print  
  Author: Samuel Richardson
  Editor: John Carroll
  Title: Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1964
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 160
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Samuel Richardson, John Carroll (ed.), Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson (Oxford, 1964), p. 160, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6464, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Letter to Susanna Highmore, 1750?

 

 

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