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Issue Details: First known date: 1838... 1838 The Mechanics' School of Arts
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A brief column reporting on William a'Beckett's 'second lecture on Poetry ... to a crowded and respectable auditory [audience]' and a lecture on the 'History of Languages' by the Rev. John Saunders. Both lectures took place at the Mechanics School of Arts in Sydney in 1838.

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— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 26 June vol. 36 no. 4036 1838; (p. 2) A report on the 'first of a series of lectures on poetry ... delivered in the School of Arts on Friday evening [22 June 1838] ... by William a'Beckett ...' The report commends William a'Beckett and mentions that the audience 'included several ladies ... [and] was highly respectable, and so numerous as completely to fill the room.'
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  • 1838
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