| Evidence: | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 24 September 1794, 'near one [pm]': 'The Churchills are here in the room while I write [...] just as I was going to begin my letter, the newspaper came in, and he and I have been reading it aloud to us paragraph by paragraph, half of which are full of bad news, of retreats of our army, of the capture of our Mediterranean fleet by the French, and [...] of the King of Prussia having been forced to raise the siege of Warsaw.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 24 Sep 1794 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reading Group: | Horace Walpole and Mr Churchill |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | various |
| Religion: | various |
| Country of origin: | various |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Other/s named Churchill |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | newspaper |
| Genre: | Poetry, Politics, Reference / General works |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | 24 September 1794 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 9321 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Lady Theresa Lewis | |
| Title: | Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry From the Year 1783 to 1852 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1865 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 437 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry From the Year 1783 to 1852 (London, 1865), 1, p. 437, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9321, accessed: 01 May 2024 | |
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