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Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, translated from the oiginl Latin MS. under the immediate inspection of the prince by John Brown, Esq.

'I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff

'read Alexy Haimatoff - study a little greek - read Political Justice'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff

''Tuesday Oct. 4th. [...] Read Alexy [...] Haimatoff twice through -- more delighted with it [...] In the Evening read Political Justice -- Sit up till twelve.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff

'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff

'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff

'Sunday Nov. 6th. Rise at nine [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff & King Richard III [...] Dine at four.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Shelley at Oxford

'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. Minutes of last read + approved.

3. A. B. Dilks read from Sir James Jeans’ ‘Universe around Us’. Man’s insignificance was not even tempered by the possibility of life on Mars.

4. Muriel Stevens brought us to more homely surroundings with passages from Eleanor Acland’s ‘Goodbye for the Present.’

5. Hilaire Belloc’s descriptive power was illustrated by R. H. Robson’s reading from ‘The Eyewitness’, telling of Napoleon’s pursuit of of Sir John Moore + a snow storm in the Sierras.

6. Ethel C. Stevens’s extract from Agnes Hunt’s Reminiscences dealt with experiences in the Tasmanian Bush.

7. R. D. L Moore read from T Jefferson Hogg – from a book published in 1833 – an account of Shelley at Oxford.

8. Dorothea Taylor gave us Taine’s impressions of England written in 1871.

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[signed] R. H. Robson
19. 5. 39'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Moore      Print: Book

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