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Record 8824

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Mr Brand' to Mary Berry, January 1798: 'Lady Ossory, to alleviate my confinement with a very bad cold, has treated me to Lord Orford's letters to her, tho' in a very mutilated transcript, and desired my opinion about their publication.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Jan 1797 and 31 Jan 1798
Country: unknown
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:Mr Brand
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: unknown
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: unknown
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Horace Walpole, Lord Orford
Title: Letters to Lady Ossory
Genre: Transcribed letters
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: borrowed (other)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8824  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Lady Theresa Lewis
  Title: Extracts of the Journal and Correspondence of Miss Berry From the Year 1783 to 1852
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1865
  Vol: 2
  Page: 66
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journal and Correspondence of Miss Berry From the Year 1783 to 1852 (London, 1865), 2, p. 66, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8824, accessed: 25 April 2024

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