Record Number: 6464
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am very much obliged to you, for your transcriptions and observations from Pliny; as you say, I should never find time to read the book. What stores of knowledge do I lose, by my incapacity of reading, and by my having used myself to write, till I can do nothing else, nor hardly that'.
Century:1700-1799
Date:Between 1 Jan 1750 and 31 Dec 1750
Country:England
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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:19 Aug 1689
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:printer and author
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
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:[observations and transcriptions from work]
Genre:Classics, Natural history
Form of Text:Manuscript: Unknown, transcriptions by Susanna Highmore
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:6464
Source:Samuel Richardson
Editor:John Carroll
Title:Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1964
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Page:160
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Samuel Richardson, John Carroll (ed.), Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson, (Oxford, 1964), p. 160, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=6464, accessed: 29 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Letter to Susanna Highmore, 1750?