Record Number: 29936
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'After arranging for the little gunner captain to go straight through from Fas so as to be in Kuweit [sic] by 8, and testing Marris' verse translation of Horace's "Odes", a creditable if unlovely performance, I had set, pressed and appreciated my new camp-bed.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:3 Jun 1917
Country:at sea (persian Gulf between Basra and Kuweit)
Timeevening
Place:other location: on board the "Lewis Pelly"
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:19 Nov 1881
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:diplomat (colonial civil servant) and army officer
Religion:Christian (Anglican)
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:at sea (persian Gulf between Basra and Kuweit)
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Odes of Horace, Books i-iv, and the Saecular Hymn
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsWilliam Marris' translation Oxford: Henry Frowde, 1912.
Provenanceunknown
probably owned
Source Information:
Record ID:29936
Source:Ronald Storrs
Editor:n/a
Title:Orientations
Place of Publication:London (Readers Union Edn.)
Date of Publication:1939 (1937)
Vol:n/a
Page:251
Additional Comments:
Diary entry 3 June 1917.
Citation:
Ronald Storrs, Orientations, (London (Readers Union Edn.), 1939 (1937)), p. 251, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29936, accessed: 08 November 2024
Additional Comments:
None