Record Number: 12124
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Dr. Sir. Poets tell us that love is blind ? I fear indifference is more so. It is many months since I sent you a slight gage d?amour; it is many years (do not be alarmed, I am still very young) since I first became acquainted with your worth and excellence. I have seen you ? met you ? read your works ? heard you speak ? listened, in a breathless state, to your eloquent and manly expression of the sentiments which you do honor; and still by no word or sign have I discovered that you recognized in me the giver of the simple worthless riding whip which I have often seen in your hand, and once (when you [ ] it) nearly touched.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Feb 1812 and 31 Jul 1838
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city
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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:7 Feb 1812
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:Journalist and writer
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[works]
Genre:Unknown
Form of Text:Print: BookManuscript: SheetUnknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:12124
Source:Charles Dickens
Editor:Madeline House
Title:The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume One: 1820-1839
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1965
Vol:1
Page:422
Additional Comments:
Additional editor: Graham Storey. Published by Clarendon Press as the Pilgrim edition.
Citation:
Charles Dickens, Madeline House (ed.), The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume One: 1820-1839, (Oxford, 1965), 1, p. 422, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12124, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Letter to John Forster.
