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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish i...Louisa Clinton Walter Scott[Waverley Novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Your official opinion of the Merits of "Emma", is very valuable & satisfactory.'John Murray Jane AustenEmmaManuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
1900-1945'Your opening pages [of "Turgenev: A Study"] are excellent , excellent! I was much delighted with your masterly thrusts to all that thick headed crowd. As to the rest of ...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettTurgenev: A StudyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your paper in the "Academy" mutilated as it is by the mystic mind illustrates my meaning.'Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Making of Modern VersePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Your paper on the drama has pleased me so much in the form and has appealed strongly to my convictions which it clarifies and expresses.I read it the evening you left [....Joseph Conrad John GalsworthySome Platitudes Concerning DramaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Your photograph came yesterday (It's good!) and the book ["Mogreb-el-Acksa"] arrived by this evening's post. I dropped everything--as you may imagine and rushed at it pa...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamMogreb-el-AcksaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Your poems I shall procure forthwith. There were noble lines in what you inserted in one of your Numbers from Religious Musings, but I thought them elaborate. I am som...Charles Lamb Samuel Taylor ColeridgeReligious MusingsPrint: Serial / periodical, Extracts from poems in periodical.
1900-1945'Your preface to Aubrey is as delightful as it is learned, and Aubrey himself astonishes me more and more. Has there ever been a writer with more economy of phrase, or wi...Edith Sitwell John AubreyThe Scandals and Credulities of John AubreyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your R.A.F. paper is very good [...].'Joseph Conrad Edric Cecil Mornington Roberts Unknown
1800-1849'Your sad Messenger is just arrived. I had again been cherishing Hopes, when the day of Hope was clean gone. Compose yourself, my beloved Wife, and try to feel that the...Thomas Carlyle Jane Welsh CarlyleMessage about Aunt's deathManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Your Saturday Review fling is first rate. Nothing I liked more since the gold-fish carrier story'. Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA Convert (?) Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Your whole letter is full of mistakes from one end to the other. I see you have taken your ideas of Turkey from that worthy author Dumont, who has written with equal ign...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Jean DumontA New Voyage to the LevantPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your work on my novel ['Whom God Hath Joined'.] is now over, I am thankful to say, & so is mine too, nearly.... Had to read it aloud to the sex. So nice & cheerful to r...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettWhom God Hath JoinedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Zeppelin. A great rush for the windows ... This evening was marked by the arrival of a parcel of books, Tauchnitz edition, which we had been allowed to order. No doubt t...Ian Vivian Hay unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookManuscript: SheetUnknown
1850-1899'Zoe Proctor [sic] (b. 1867) describes how, during the 1870s, when her father was governor of the County Gaol at Bury St Edmunds, she "could not gain sufficient solitud...Zoe Procter [Anon] [Anon]story booksPrint: Book
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Theophilus CibberLives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Print: Book
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Patrick Murdoch[Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The S...Print: Book
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell anon.[Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The S...Print: Book
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Biographia BritannicaPrint: Book
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Biographical DictionaryPrint: Book


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