Record Number: 24594
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847: 'The cotton market will ocupy a good deal of attention [...] Ferguson and Taylor's "Manchester Monthly Trade Circular," which I have received to-day, after generally observing "that at no former period in the course of a long experience had they ever known the business of that [?cotton] market so embarrassed as at this moment," note in their postscript that for money the terms are: One and a quarter per cent. for cash in ten days!"'
Century:1800-1849
Date:6 Oct 1847
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1802
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation:Member of Parliament (Conservative leader in House of Commons)
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Manchester Monthly Trade Circular
Genre:Social Science, Politics, Reference / General works
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsFerguson and Taylor, September/October 1847
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:24594
Source:n/a
Editor:Louis J. Jennings
Title:The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 t0 1830
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1884
Vol:3
Page:145
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Louis J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 t0 1830, (London, 1884), 3, p. 145, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=24594, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
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