Record Number: 29936

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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)

Time

evening

Place:

other location: on board the "Lewis Pelly"

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:

Ronald Storrs

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Horace

Title:

The Odes of Horace, Books i-iv, and the Saecular Hymn

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

William Marris' translation Oxford: Henry Frowde, 1912.

Provenance

unknown
probably owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29936

Source:

Print

Author:

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: 03 October 2024

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Additional Comments:

None