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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I made a reputation on board by reciting one of the p...	anon	Sir Alfred Lyall	Verses written in India	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I made a reputation on board by reciting one of the p...	Leslie Stephen	Sir Alfred Lyall	Verses written in India	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I am doing principally my Roman Law just now. It is really to me a great pleasure; and it keeps me out of the way of writing, for which I am not in the vein.?	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	Roman Law	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I bought the other day a copy of Aquinas & find him very good reading. Only to understand him one ought obviously to read a whole mass of contemporary stuff wh. would sw...	Leslie Stephen	Thomas Aquinas		Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I could no longer stand the torrent of nonsense, violence and folly which the newspapers day after day poured forth, and resolved to write a letter which was published i...	Charles Greville		[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	?I finished poor old Carlyle last night. Froude?s case is curious. He expresses & I think, really feels, veneration & so forth; but there is something curiously complicat...	Leslie Stephen	James A. Froude	Thomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London 18...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?I forward you a Chronicle with Hogarth?s beautiful notice.?	Charles Dickens		The Morning Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	?I got a quiet seat behind a yew hedge and went away into a meditation. It [i.e. the windswept scene in the garden at Swanston Cottage] somehow reminded me of your letter...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Frances Sitwell	letter	Manuscript: Letter, Passage refers to various letters from Frances Sitwell to RLS, dates and subjects unspecified here. Letters received by RLS before 4 June 1874 [date ascribed by the editors to the cited passage].
	1700-1799	?I had such good eyes, that I often read by the light of the moon, as my master would never permit me to take a candle into my room.?	James Lackington	unknown	various	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?I have also read most of our best plays.?	James Lackington	unknown	various English plays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; nor did I omit History, Voyages, Travels, Natural H...	James Lackington	unknown	[English poets]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; nor did I omit History, Voyages, Travels, Natural H...	James Lackington	unknown	Various	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend to you as a book you will admire, because it furnishe...	Maria Edgeworth	Charles-Louis Montesquieu	Causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decad...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?I have had several aggravations of my indisposition, in the shape of voluntary contributions for the Miscellany-one man has sent about as much as would fill half a dozen...	Charles Dickens	unknown	submissions to Bentley's Miscellany	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	?I have just been reading "Maud". Do not fear, dear; it has not been unpleasant to me; I see and know and accept all the limitations without a grudge.?	Robert Louis Stevenson	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Maud; A Monodrama	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?I have just excited his [her father?s] envy even to clasping his hands in distraction, by telling him of a man I met with in the middle of Grainger?s Worthies of England...	Maria Edgeworth	James Granger	A Biographical history of England from Egbert the ...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?I have read the several articles by Major Pryse Gordon, which I herewith return. Although they would possess considerable interest for military or naval gentlemen, I fea...	Charles Dickens	Major Pryse Lockhart Gordon	[articles]	Print: UnknownUnknown
	1850-1899	?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the time of Edward I by F. W. Maitland? It is a wonderf...	Leslie Stephen	F. W. Maitland	History of English Law	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the time of Edward I by F. W. Maitland?. The other book...	Leslie Stephen	A. J. Balfour	Foundations of Belief	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan. I shall be happy to accept Hugo & if I have been ...	Leslie Stephen	Robert Louis Stevenson	article on Victor Hugo	Print: Serial / periodical

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