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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engagement with text in the form of various marginal annot...John Susan variousMiscellany of verseManuscript: Codex
1600-1699A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engagement with text in the form of various marginal annot...John Nutting variousMiscellany of verseManuscript: Codex
1900-1945A note on endpaper by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "This volume was among the books being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness took him."George Otto Trevelyan Anthony HopeThe Dolly dialoguesPrint: Book
1700-1799A number of recipes copied from 'First Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy', by Hannah Glasse,1747. For example: 'To boile...Mary Bacon Hannah GlasseFirst Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Pla...Print: Book
1800-1849A rare thing this literature or love of fame or notoriety which accompanies it. Here is Mr H.M. [Henry Mackenzie] on the very brink of human dissolution as actively anxi...Walter Scott Henry Mackenzie Unknown
1900-1945A reminiscence of reading John Ruskin's autobiography, Praeterita (pub 1881-6) at work. Published in The Wheatsheaf: 'Long ago, with the engine groaning below the wood...Ethel Carnie John RuskinPraeteritaPrint: Book
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1800-1849		A Satyrical View of London, by J. Corry. 1 vol. The above vol. is a tolerable production; it treats principally of fashion, beaux, belles, London tradesmen, quack doctor...Ellen Weeton John CorryA Satirical View of London at the Commencement ofPrint: Book
1850-1899A volume of sermons, marked with dates and what appears to be a system of initials - possibly some sort of reminder? Examples: "E.F.I. [?] April 24th -1853/Nov. 13th ..53...George BurderVillage sermons: or, fifty-two plain and short dis...Print: Book
1900-1945A volume of sermons, marked with dates and what appears to be a system of initials - possibly some sort of reminder? Examples: [Sermon 1.] "SSC [?] 15 Jan 1922 & M.../ SS...James Walker Harper Fidelis, pseud.Thirty short addresses for family prayers or cotta...Print: Book
1850-1899A. P. Stanley to Alfred Tennyson, 25 December 1876: 'I will gladly contrive if you wish to transmit your poem [Harold] to the Queen. I know that Her Majesty is expecti...A. P. Stanley Alfred TennysonHaroldPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730: 'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments concerning Milton's prose writings, agree with thos...Aaron Hill John MiltonProse writingsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1741: 'I am so hid among green leaves and blossoms, that I read or see nothing that busies the public, except now and then a ...Aaron Hill newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry: 'I informed him [Pope], that, at reading a new p...Earl of Tyrconnel and guests including Aaron Hill 'a new play'Unknown
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry: 'I informed him [Pope], that, at reading a new p...anon 'lines to the earl of Oxford'Print: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 14 April 1737: 'I thank you for the pleasure I have received from Leonidas, which excellent poem I herewith return you. I am told that...Aaron Hill LeonidasUnknown
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1741: 'A thousand thanks are due to you for the two delightful sheets of Pamela, part II. Where will your wonders end? [goe...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamela (two sheets from part II)Unknown
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740: 'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will be as hard to express, as the beauties of Pamela. Tho...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740: 'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will be as hard to express, as the beauties of Pamela. Tho...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 29 December 1740: 'We have a lively little boy in the family [...] quite unfriended, and born to no prospect. He is the son of an hone...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1738: 'I will carefully and speedily return the folio with which you so kindly surprised me. It promises me, as I turn the leav...Aaron Hill 'folio'Print: Book


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