Record Number: 18821

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'My brother and I have read over together the Essay on Sheep their natural history &c which we so often talked about it is extremely curious and interesting and very original he has ordered me to sell it to the highest bidder for a magazine Encyclopaedia or any such thing but on the condition that the purchaser is to publish it in a small volume or pamphlet afterwards with notes and an appendix by me. I think Boyd and you might venture to give him £30 or at least 25£ for the copyright.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: 19 Oct 1817

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

specific address: Eltrieve Lake

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:

Reading Group:

James and William Hogg

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

Nov 1770

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

shepherd / farmer and author

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Hogg

Title:

[prize essay on sheep, prize awarded by the Highland Society of Scotland]

Genre:

Agriculture / horticulture / husbandry

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

published in Prize essays and transacions of the Highland society of Scotland (1807) but never in pamphlet form

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18821

Source:

Print

Author:

James Hogg

Editor:

Gillian Hughes

Title:

Collected Letters of James Hogg, The

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh

Date of Publication:

2004

Vol:

I

Page:

305

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The, (Edinburgh, 2004), I, p. 305, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18821, accessed: 12 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Letter to William Blackwood. Details given of reader are for James Hogg; William Hogg was a farmer born in 1767. The essay could have been either MS or in the volume cited under publication details.