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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'The Refinement'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John NorrisThe RefinementPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.

Francis Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

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Victor Alexander John Nyren?The Cricketers of my TimePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of ...John Clare John Ogilvie'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various ...Print: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday the 5th of July, I again visited Johnson. He told me he had looked into the poems of a pretty voluminous writer, Mr. (now Dr.) John Ogilvie, one of the Presby...Samuel Johnson John Ogilvie[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Found much edification in reading Doctor Owen on Indwelling sin in the heart of a believer. I hope to read it often, that I may transcribe it on my memory and note the m...Arabella Davies John OwenThe Nature, Power, Deceit, and Prevalency of the R...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".'John Frederick William Dunn John OxenhamBarbe of Grand BayonPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We make another sally today … I have the parcel, and the letters and J. Oxenham’s books … "The V.[Vision] Splendid" contains several real poems: those indeed which y...Wilfred Owen John OxenhamThe Vision SplendidPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We make another sally today … I have the parcel, and the letters and J. Oxenham’s books … "The V.[Vision] Splendid" contains several real poems: those indeed which y...Wilfred Owen John OxenhamBarbe of Grand BayouPrint: Book
1900-1945'Enjoyed Bees in Amber.'Albert Ruskin Cook John Oxenham (pseud.)Bees in Amber: A Little Book of Thoughtful VersePrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Thanks so much for your letter & the little Book. (The Vision Splendid by John Oxenham) That was a ripping little poem wasn't it? I guess it's just about right!' Guy Mainwaring Knocker John Oxenham (pseud.)The Vision SplendidPrint: Book
1900-1945'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her own reading scarcely extended beyond light novels and ...Susan Owen John Oxenham [pseud.][light novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'[that civilians could believe soldiers were happy in the trenches] is evident from plenty of civilian verse, including, for example, a poem in John Oxenham's "The Vision...Wilfred Owen John Oxenham [pseud.]Vision Splendid, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John OxleeThe Christian Doctrines of the Trinity and Incarna...Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith John PalmerJournal of Travels in the United States of North A...Print: Book
1900-1945'This has been a very uneventful week and I have nothing much to add to my letter to Father, except that I've read "Sayonara" and think it excellent.' Gertrude Bell John Paris [pseud. Frank Trelawney Arthur Ashton-GwatkinSayonaraPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you seen Gwatkin? His novel is not bad and I can see now why it had that sale. Shall I send it to you or has he given you a copy?' Joseph Conrad John Paris [pseud. Frank Trelawney Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin]KimonoPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1839: 'At painful times, when composition is impossible & reading not [italics]enough[end italics], grammars & dict...Elizabeth Barrett John ParkhurstAn Hebrew and English LexiconPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John PearsonAn Exposition of the CreedPrint: Book
1600-1699'I rose early this morning, and looked over and corrected my brother John's speech which he is to make the next Apposition'Samuel Pepys John Pepys[speech]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as ...Samuel Pepys John Pepys[speech]Manuscript: Sheet


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