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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book
'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson] The Bishop, to whom I had the honour to be known several years ago, shews me much attention; and I am edified by his conversation. I mu...Beilby Porteus Samuel JohnsonPrefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works ...Print: Book
1850-1899'["In A Nursery in the Nineties" (1935)] Eleanor Farjeon (b.1881) ... recreates her identificatory enthusiam as she read "The Three Musketeers", which enabled her to step...Eleanor Farjeon Alexandre DumasThe Three MusketeersPrint: Book
1700-1799'["Rambler"] No 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicism, as the Sun of Revelation is brighter than the twi...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'['After Hawthorne's romance had come out she expresses to her friends her supposition that they will have read, as every one in England had, the "Cleopatra chapter", and...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Nathaniel HawthorneMarble Faun, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[...] and there was only time [in Damascus] to acquire a little [non-Egyptian] Arabic by wandering about rather than by book-work and to contract a sharp attack of fever...Ronald Storrs Anatole Francel'Ile des Pingouins Print: Book
1900-1945'[...] but now since I've received the "Sat. Review" I've something to write about. The "German Tramp" is not only excellent[...] but it is something more. Of your short ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamIn a German Tramp Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[...] Gaze on - then heart-sick [...] It is in the first edition of this poem, that I am reading, which Southey composed in 6 weeks & corrected it, while it was proceedi...Joseph Hunter Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc, An Epic PoemPrint: Book
1850-1899'[...] how extremely sorry I am for your great loss in Mr. Henderson. I saw a mention of him [Mr. Henderson] in the Athenaeum last Saturday with the greatest regret'.Margaret Oliphant  Print: Advertisement, Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[...] the gratuitous atrocity of, say, "Ivan Illyitch"[sic] or the monstrous stupidity of such a thing as "The Kreutzer Sonata" for instance; where an obvious degenerate...Joseph Conrad Leo TolstoyThe Death of Ivan Illyich and other storiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[...] the volume ["Charity"] which on my first visit to London in many months I carried off home. From the first word of the wonderful preface to the last short sketch o...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamCharityPrint: Book
1900-1945'[...] two or three times a week after dinner we got out the chessmen and board and spent a couple of hours playing through the games in Capablanca's book. We played ever...Joseph Conrad José Raul CapablancaMy Chess Career or Chess FundamentalsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[...] you remind me a little of Flaubert, whose "Madame Bovary" I have just reread with respectful admiration.'Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'[...]the 2 vols of my uncle's memoirs which I have by me, to refresh my recollections and settle my ideas.' [while Conrad was starting to write his own memoirs].Joseph Conrad Tadeusz BobrowskiPamietniki Print: Book
1850-1899'[?] I am seen about the garden with large and aged quartos [?]'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'[?] I could not [?] pay the postage for the book. [?] The book, you will receive shortly. Do not run away with the idea that I think it specially commendable. Only I th...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles BaudelairePetits Poemes en ProsePrint: Book
1850-1899'[?] it was that paper of yours that made me think of the book[Baudelaire's "Petits Poemes en Prose"]' (see RED ID18015)Robert Louis Stevenson Katharine de MattosunknownManuscript: Sheet, Referred to here by RLS as "that paper of yours".
1850-1899'[?] though I can do no original work, I get forward making notes for my ?Knox? at a good trot.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownVarious unspecified books concerning John Knox.Print: Book
1800-1849'[A friend] one day desired to be allowed to see and criticise the first chapter of my [Harriet Martineau's] "Retrospect of Western Travel." I gave him the MS. at night;...anon Harriet MartineauRetrospect of Western TravelManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a French magazine, in which you will find a very pretty or...Mr Foote [unknown][a French magazine]Print: Serial / periodical


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