Record Number: 2525

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'My dear Blackwood, I have just read the opening article of Maga, and I cannot go to sleep, or make an attempt thereat, till I write to tell you how deeply the article has impressed me, - I feel the picture will be with me day & night for a good while to come. The country owes you thanks: but we won't take warning, & may go down any day like Carthage & Venice. I presume the article is by Hamley. Compared with the momentousness of the theme & the noble spirit in which it is treated, I can hardly bring myself to speak of its exceeding excellence as a literary work, - but in truth, I don't think even De Foe could have beat it.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 4 May 1871

Country:

n/a

Time

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Place:

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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:

R.H. Patterson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

George T Chesney

Title:

Battle of Dorking

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, History

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In Blackwood's Magazine

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

2525

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

R.H. Patterson

Title:

Letters

Location:

National Library of Scotland

Call No:

MS 4281

Page/Folio:

28-9

Additional Information:

Letter from R.H. Patterson to John Blackwood, 4 May 1871

Citation:

R.H. Patterson, Letters, National Library of Scotland, MS 4281, 28-9, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2525, accessed: 05 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None