Record Number: 27397
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Colonel D'Aguilar to John Murray, 15 January 1831, on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron: 'I have sat up all the night, and devoured every line of it. As a whole it is beautiful, the genuine transcript of his mind and body. But there are passages in it on the score of discretion which can never be sufficiently regretted. I lament this the more because you know the pains I took to prevent it..... The minor and minute detail of those grosser irregularities, to which, for a time, he abandoned himself in the rashness of despair, and when his mind was without an object, should never have been inserted..... I grieve over this beyond measure, becuase so little is wanting to make the book perfect.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1831 and 15 Jan 1831
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
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single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
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Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Life of Byron (vol 2)
Genre:Poetry, Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsPublished by John Murray, January 1831
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Source Information:
Record ID:27397
Source:Samuel Smiles
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Title:A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1891
Vol:2
Page:321
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Citation:
Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, (London, 1891), 2, p. 321, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27397, accessed: 12 May 2025
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