Record Number: 2552

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'As for the Private Secretary, I can sympathize with both you & Chesney. As Editor, I should have [?] to print it as it is; as Author, - if I had written it, - I am shy of writing anything in that style - I should have been very proud of it. The fact is, though risque it is devilish well done; & the merit & the objections to it are that it is so sensuously suggestive as to be [??] than far harder language.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jul 1881 and 6 Jul 1881

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:

Alex Innes Shand

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:

n/a

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:

The Private Secretary

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In Blackwood's Magazine

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

2552

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Alex Innes Shand

Title:

Letters

Location:

National Library of Scotland

Call No:

MS 4426

Page/Folio:

79-84

Additional Information:

Letter from Alex Innes Shand to William Blackwood, 6 July 1881

Citation:

Alex Innes Shand, Letters, National Library of Scotland, MS 4426, 79-84, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2552, accessed: 05 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None