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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Young Corbishley's letter in the Advertiser was interesting about his march into Palestine. I wrote to Mr Corbishley a week or so back for the address of the ones ...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Ludlow Advertiser and Craven Arms GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Young Corbishley's letter in the Advertiser was interesting about his march into Palestine. I wrote to Mr Corbishley a week or so back for the address of the ones ...Thomas Wainwright Emmuska, Baroness OrczyThe Tangled SkeinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your "Daniel Deronda" is uncommonly jolly, and right. I don’t know that you’ve ever written anything which pleased me so much. You might have pitched it stronger about t...Robert Louis Stevenson Sydney ColvinReview of George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Your "Dumas" I think exquisite.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'Dumas'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the absurdity of not being able to pronounce the word Shift. I could forgive her any follies in English, rath...Jane Austen Caroline Austenunpublished manuscript storyManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Your article on [Icelandic] Sagas first rate and extracts quoted are good. I quite see how one could get dramas out of that.' Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettThe Icelandic Sagas Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Your biography will always be a model work, & one of wh. the Interest is perpetual'Caroline Clive Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1800-1849'Your book is delightful - You move one to the heart for Tasso - & I think make out a better case than he deserves for his oppression - except that a sense that they are ...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntStories from the Italian Poets: with lives of the ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Your Chicago article was very good.' Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Your Comédie du Laboratoire is perfect. Très chic — as French painters used to say of their pictures. This formula expresses the highest praise.'Joseph Conrad Bruno WinawerRoztwor profesora Pytla (Professor Pytel's Solutio...Print: Book, or playscript
1800-1849'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks about 'Kenilworth a Romance'; he then describes his sto...[unknown student] anon Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks about 'Kenilworth a Romance'; he then describes his sto...[unknown student] anon Blackwood's magazinePrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Your delightful letter, the Challenge (which I think grows better and better—especially the Prayer suggestions on the last page), and various enclosures arrived on...Philip Thomas Byard Clayton The ChallengePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Your descriptions of your travels do indeed set my feet moving, and my heart longing to see all you have seen; and this desire has been increased by reading the "Corsair...Susan Ferrier George Gordon, Lord ByronCorsair, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Your father's book is wonderful. I read the articles of course at the time; but now collected, in the mass, they astonish one by their marvellous insight into the future...Joseph Conrad Frederic HarrisonThe German Peril: Forecasts 1864-1914, Realities 1...Print: Book, Pamphlet
1900-1945'Your first inst[alment] [of "Kipps"] in the PMM [Pall Mall Magazine] is jolly good. It turns up [sic] remarkably well. Coming upon it unexpectedly (the No.of PMM was sen...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells Kipps: The Story of a Simple SoulPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Your gift is none the less welcome because I read your book a few weeks ago. E[dward] Garnett, Duckworth's literary advisor sent it to me shortly after publication.'Joseph Conrad David Bone The BrassbounderPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your good letter arrived yesterday--a great pleasure and a source of serious misgivings. I have had your latest volume and surely I acknowledged it! [...] You mean "Mono...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordMalayan MonochromesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your introductions to Turgenev?s novels were an event in my history?if that interests you.' Arnold Bennett Edward Garnettintroductions to novels by TurgenevPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your kind and racy critiques both give me pleasure and do me good; that is to say, your praise gives me pleasure because it is so sincere and judicious that I value it; ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Fairbairn[remarks on 'North and South']Manuscript: Letter


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