Record Number: 14253
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; as much of Hesiod as in the "Eton Selecta"; the first, seventh, and eighth "Idylls" of Theocritus, and his Epithalamium of Helen"; all of Sappho, Theognis, Callistratus, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus as are in that collectiuon - (they are most of them scraps); ...'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Oct 1800 and 31 Oct 1801
Country:India
Timen/a
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:6 Oct 1779
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:East India Company administrator
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:India
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Eton Selecta
Genre:Classics, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:14253
Source:James Sutherland Cotton
Editor:n/a
Title:Mountstuart Elphinstone
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1892
Vol:n/a
Page:27
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
James Sutherland Cotton, Mountstuart Elphinstone, (Oxford, 1892), p. 27, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=14253, accessed: 13 May 2025
Additional Comments:
Title is possibly "Poetae graeci: sive selecta ex Homeri Odysss. Hesiodo, Theocrito ...In usum regiae Scholae Etonensis". One of a group of some 70 works partly read while journeying, with Edward Strachey, between a post in Benares and his next posting in Poona.
