Record Number: 29934

---

Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Towards evening the General [George McMunn] lent me "Blackwood's Centenary", in which I read twice, with eager disappointment, Charles Whibley's tribute to H. C. [Storrs' maternal uncle Henry (Harry) Cockayne-Cust, MP who had died in March 1917] ending with four misquotations in two lines.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

29 May 1917

Country:

Iraq (Mesopotamia)

Time

afternoon
evening

Place:

city
other location: on board river boat on Tigris between Baghdad and Amara

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:

Ronald Storrs

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 Nov 1881

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

diplomat (colonial civil servant) and army officer

Religion:

Christian (Anglican)

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Iraq (Mesopotamia)

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

---

Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Blackwood's Magazine

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

1917

Provenance

borrowed (other)

---

Source Information:

Record ID:

29934

Source:

Print

Author:

Ronald Storrs

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Orientations

Place of Publication:

London (Readers Union Edn.)

Date of Publication:

1939 (1937)

Vol:

n/a

Page:

248

Additional Comments:

Diary entry 29 May 1917.

Citation:

Ronald Storrs, Orientations, (London (Readers Union Edn.), 1939 (1937)), p. 248, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29934, accessed: 29 September 2024

---

Additional Comments:

None