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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 25.3.36
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

Francis E. Pollard Harry D’ErlangerThe Last Plague of EgyptPrint: Book
1600-1699'I did this day, going by water, read the Answer to the "Apology for Papists", which did like me mightily, it being a thing as well writ as I think most things that ever ...Samuel Pepys William LloydThe late apology in behalf of the papists, reprint...Print: Book
1800-1849'The Late Queen of Russia on seeing Her Bust in the King's Chamber in 1812' 'Thour't gone from us, to weep no more...'Bowly groupGeorge CrolyThe Late Queen of Russia on Seeing Her Bust in the...Unknown
1850-1899"I am, I see, talking pessimism. It is not very easy to talk anything else just now. When I read our debates, I sometimes think that we are doing our best to exemplify th...Leslie Stephen The Latterday PamphletsPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945Vol. III: "Sept 10 1922 A jolly book with all its faults and absurdities. The social manners and ways of three generations ago are illustrated cheerfully in its pages." "...George Otto Trevelyan Frances TrollopeThe Laurringtons; or, superior peoplePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Law Magazine OR Quarterly Review of Jurisprude...Print: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way reading in a good book touching the Fishery; and th...Samuel Pepys John HerneThe law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of...Print: Book
1600-1699'Going out of the gate, an ordinary woman prayed me to give her room to London; which I did, but spoke not to her all the way, but read as long as I could see my book aga...Samuel Pepys John HerneThe law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of...Print: Book
1850-1899'There was, for instance, a writer on prophecy called Jukes, of whose works each of my parents was inordinately fond, and I was early set to read Jukes aloud to them. I d...Edmund Gosse Andrew John JukesThe law of the offerings in LeviticusPrint: Book
1600-1699[Marginalia]: brief ink additions to some 6 pp of the text e.g p.57 against XXXVIII is the note 'This act is ... to be payed from imported commodities ...'; p. 49 against...Johannes [ie John] Chrystie John MiddletonThe laws and acts of the first ParliamentPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


2 For the Next ...

Dorothy Brain Anon The lay of the hunted pigUnknown
1900-1945'Minutes of Meeting held at School House. 3rd April 1943
    R. D. L. Moore in the Chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & s...		Howard Smith anon The Lay of the Hunted PigUnknown
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough- pardon the expression) whether I have read "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"- Alas only twice- And have, in addition, only the following catalogu...Sarah H. Burney Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Call it not vain - they do not err, To murmur dirges round the grave.'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelUnknown
1800-1849'"Call it not vain: - they do not err ... To murmur dirges round his grave". Scott.'Devereux Bowly Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelUnknown
1800-1849'Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, ... On a foreign strand! O Caledonia! Stern and wild, ...'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelUnknown
1850-1899'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and romance. I can well remember the time when, a mere ...William Henry Hudson Sir Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, 27 June 1812: 'I cannot refrain [...] from mentioning to you a conversation which Lord Byron had with H. R. H. the Prince Regent, and of w...George Prince of Wales Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'It poured the whole afternoon, and, after writing, I read to Albert the three first cantos of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, which delighted us both.'Queen Victoria Sir Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'We went below at half-past seven, and I read the fourth and fifth cantos of The Lay of the Last Minstrel to Albert, and then we played on the piano.' Queen Victoria Sir Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book


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