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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[Marginalia]: pp.31-61 are heavily annotated - the only clue to the identity of the annotator is in the ink - it is the colour used by Will. Baillie (see section 1.5). T...Will Baillie Leonardo Da VinciA Treatise of PaintingPrint: Book
1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight. K. Waschauer Leonardo da Vinci [unidentified letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th...Thomas Carlyle Leonhard EulerElements of AlgebraPrint: Book
1850-1899'Worked for an hour to day at French and read some Grecian History, The latter is certainly rather dry.'Albert Battiscombe Leonhard SchmitzA History of Greece, from the earliest times to th...Print: Book
1850-1899'learnt some French from "Allendorff" read some of "La petite Fadette" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmitz "History of Greece", it all helps to pass away the...Albert Battiscombe Leonhard SchmitzA History of Greece, from the earliest times to th...Print: Book
1850-1899'Have been working at French & reading "History of Greece"'Albert Battiscombe Leonhard SchmitzA History of Greece, from the earliest times to th...Print: Book
1850-1899'I cannot work this weather it is too hot, I have read a chapter of the "History of Greece" to day and that is all.'Albert Battiscombe Leonhard SchmitzA History of Greece, from the earliest times to th...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'Count Leopold Berchtold. - this man (foster-brother of the Emperor Joseph) is one of those rare travellers characters who...Robert Southey Leopold Graf von BerchtoldAn Essay to Direct and Extend the Inquiries of Pat...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'Count Leopold Berchtold. - this man (foster-brother of the Emperor Joseph) is one of those rare travellers characters who...Robert Southey Leopold Graf von BerchtoldEnsaio Sobre a Extensão dos Limites da Beneficienc...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The last words unveiling the mystery of the Erebus and Terror expedition were brought home and disclosed to the world by Sir Leopold M’Clintock in his book "The Voyage...Joseph Conrad Leopold M'ClintockThe Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: A Narr...Print: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde Leopold von RankeHistory of the PopesPrint: Book
1900-1945'My children like to get hold of Charteris, the Saint Stories, you know. But it's a funny thing we can't get any of his books in this library now. I don't know where they...Leslie CharterisSaint storiesPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Received the Books last night, and spent an exciting few minutes looking through the poems. I congratulate you on the Binding & Type.’Wilfred Owen Leslie GunstonThe Nymph and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "My chronic eastward hankerings and hungerings have been very much quickened of late by the perusal of a little book by our fri...Henry James Leslie StephenThe Playgrounds of EuropePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have received such a nice long letter (four sides) from Leslie Stephen today; about my ?V. Hugo?. It is accepted.?Robert Louis Stevenson Leslie StephenletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899?I send you L. Stephen?s letter, which is certainly very kind and jolly to get. Please show it, if you get a chance, to Mrs Sitwell.' Robert Louis Stevenson Leslie StephenletterManuscript: Letter
1900-1945Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty & bright -- without a single dead sentence in it.' Virginia Woolf Leslie Stephencritical work on PopePrint: Book
1850-1899Read Stephen’s “Macaulay”.Robert Louis Stevenson Leslie StephenHours in a Library, No. XII. − MacaulayPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read Stephen's admirable, arch-admirable, 'George Eliot', in that Cornhill.'Robert Louis Stevenson Leslie Stephen'George Eliot' in Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the first ascent of the Rothorn. R.B. Graham circulated sn...Mary Hayward Leslie Stephen[account of climbing the Zinal Rothorn]Print: Book


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