| Evidence: | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sanscrit paragraph which you found t'other morning in Murphy's "Portugal," and which you will like to possess: --
'"From whose splendid virtues, the great men, who delight to sport in the atoms which float in the beams of light issuing from the beauty of the leaf of the sleepy Ketahee of the diadem of the goddess Saraskatee, went to adorn the females of the eight points."' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 5 Nov 1795 and 22 Nov 1795 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | morning | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Twickenham specific address: Strawberry Hill |
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| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Mary Berry |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 16 Mar 1763 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | [probably] James Murphy |
| Title: | [probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 1789-90 |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | [1795] |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 9328 | |
| 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: | 489 | |
| 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. 489, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9328, accessed: 28 May 2023 | |
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