Evidence: | [description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Magazine']
'This accomplished, my next duties were to sweep the floor and dust the counter and desks in the front shop, in the course of which an occasional brief pause on my work was made that I might take a peep at the contents of some book, the title of which took my fancy.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1837 and 31 Dec 1837 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Edinburgh specific address: 78 Princess Street other location: at work, Mr Tait's warehouse |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | James Glass Bertram |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1824 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Apprentice in warehouse |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | [unknown] |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ |
Record ID: | 8179 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Glass Bertram | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Some memories of books, authors and events | |
Place of Publication: | Westminster | |
Date of Publication: | 1893 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 3 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Glass Bertram, Some memories of books, authors and events (Westminster, 1893), p. 3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8179, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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