Record Number: 33491

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'To-day I ... prepare myself for leaving England. I read, whilst [here] the "Ingoldsby Legends" entire, Second Part "King Henry IV," and more cursorily "Midsummer Nights Dream" over again, and First Part "King Henry IV." I enjoyed myself very much. But now to fresh fields and pastures. I take over in books: Shakespeare, Tennyson (to 156), "Canterbury Tales" (Skeat, Oxford edition), Vergil, "Aeneid" (I-VI), "Wilhelm Tell," "Golden Treasury," "Pickwick," "Collected Verse" of Rudyard Kipling, et alia; French, German, and English Dictionaries; map (Daily Telegraph). I hope at Folkestone to secure a small Horace, an Iliad-let (Macmillan's Pocket Edition), and "Don Quixote de la Mancha," I also have my old Harvard Italian grammar, and "England in the Middle Ages" by a Manchester woman, B.A.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 14 Oct 1917 and 17 Oct 1917

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Codford
county: Wiltshire
specific address: Camp 15
other location: Guard Room

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:

Wainwight Merrill

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

26 May 1898

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Gunner, Canadian Garrison Artillery

Religion:

Unknown

Country of Origin:

United States of America

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Shakespeare

Title:

2 Henry IV

Genre:

Drama

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33491

Source:

Print

Author:

Wainwright Merrill

Editor:

Charles M. Stearns

Title:

A College Man in Khaki: Letters of an American in the British Artillery

Place of Publication:

New York

Date of Publication:

1918

Vol:

n/a

Page:

190-1

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Wainwright Merrill, Charles M. Stearns (ed.), A College Man in Khaki: Letters of an American in the British Artillery, (New York, 1918), p. 190-1, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33491, accessed: 30 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

None