Record Number: 27447

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Sir Robert Peel to John Murray, 7 July 1840: 'I forgot to thank you for the last edition of the Handbook, but I have found leisure to look into it, and have read many parts of it with great interest. It is really a useful and amusing work for those who do not travel. Do not you think that a very interesting work might be written, to be entitled, "A Historical Account of the Celebrated Villas in the Neighbourhood of London? I mean rather the villas that [italics]have[end italics] been, rather than those that now exist [makes various suggestions of villas for inclusion] [...] Perhaps I overrate the interest with which such a book would be read. I certainly do not, if it would equal that with which I myself read the account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris, remarkable in history, but the traces of many of which are fast fading away'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

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Time

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Place:

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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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Sir Robert Peel

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Politician

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

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Country of Experience:

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Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

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Additional Comments:

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

'account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris'

Genre:

History, Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

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Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27447

Source:

Print

Author:

Samuel Smiles

Editor:

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Title:

A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1891

Vol:

2

Page:

447

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, (London, 1891), 2, p. 447, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27447, accessed: 28 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

Not clear whether or not this the same text as the 'Handbook.'