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Edwyn Robert Bevan : Jerusalem under the High Priests: five lectures on the period between Nehemiah and the New Testament

[Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there to eat, and curled up on rugs on mouldy straw, and I read "Jerusalem under the High Priests"! Arrived in at 6:30 totally soaked! Maccy [later the cookery writer Jane Grigson] has a tiny book of Shakespeare's Sonnets which I must try and get - they are most lovely and very interesting and soothing.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

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