Record Number: 3415

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Your kind present of Andrew Lang's two volumes has just reached me, and from what I have gleaned by a glimpse of the plates wh. I have opened, I have an intellectual treat for store this evening & subsequent nights'.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

23 Oct 1890

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

Hampshire
Gosport
Anglesey

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:

S.P. Oliver

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

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:

Andrew Lang

Title:

Life, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote

Genre:

Biography, Autobiog / Diary, Letters

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Blackwood, 1890; 2 vols

Provenance

borrowed (private library)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3415

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

S.P. Oliver

Title:

Blackwood Correspondence Book

Location:

National Library of Scotland

Call No:

MS 4558

Page/Folio:

227r

Additional Information:

Letter from S.P. Oliver to Blackwood, 23 October 1890

Citation:

S.P. Oliver, Blackwood Correspondence Book, National Library of Scotland, MS 4558, 227r, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3415, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Oliver had only glanced into the book, and thus read a few pages at most, at the time of writing.