Record Number: 9249
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790, 'at night': 'While I write, Mr. Lysons has been turning over Le Neve's "Monumenta Anglicana," and has found that [italics]nine[end italics] aldermen of London died in one year. I concluded that it must have been in one of the years of the Plague. No, it was in 1711.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:29 Jul 1790
Country:England
Timen/anight
Place:city: Twickenham
specific address: Strawberry Hill
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:unknown
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:unknown
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:Monumenta Anglicana: Inscriptions on the Monuments of Eminent Persons deceased from 1700 to 1715
Genre:Biography, Arts / architecture, Antiquarianism
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:9249
Source:n/a
Editor:Lady Theresa Lewis
Title:Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry, from the year 1783 to 1852
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1865
Vol:1
Page:209
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry, from the year 1783 to 1852, (London, 1865), 1, p. 209, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=9249, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
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