Record Number: 33035
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
‘You ask me, with a suggestion of triumph, what I … think of Nietzsche now? I have only now begun to read the man …’
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Oct 1914 and 28 Nov 1914
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Cheriton
county: Kent
specific address: Shorncliffe Camp
(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:19 May 1895
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:2/Lt, 7th Suffolk Regiment
Religion:Agnostic
Country of Origin:Scotland
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:[unknown]
Genre:Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:33035
Source:Charles Hamilton Sorley
Editor:Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Title:The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:n/a
Page:204
Additional Comments:
Letter to Master, Marlborough School, 28 November 1914, Shorncliffe
Citation:
Charles Hamilton Sorley, Jean Moorcroft Wilson (ed.), The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley, (London, 1990), p. 204, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33035, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
The date range is speculative and based on the dates of the last two letters to his old school Master.