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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849John Playfair to Mary Berry, from Cambridge, 28 September 1804: 'In going into a great library, it often occurs to me to take up some remarkable book, open it by chan...John Playfair Theatrum CometicumPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 September 1795, '"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick". said Solomon. Statius says "quâ non gravior mortalibus addita cur...Robert Southey Publius Papinius StatiusThebaidPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as possible [...] the result of "Ragged Lady", the "Silver...Henry James William Dean HowellsTheir Silver Wedding JourneyPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Guy PocockThen They Pulled Down the BlindPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gottfried Wilhelm von LeibnizTheodicee, das ist, Versuch von der Gute GottesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De WetteTheodorPrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp J.M. NealeTheodora PhranzaPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter 444. March, 31st, 1832: "I think it may be better to write directly to yourself, on the subject you enquire about. In Theocritus—καλα ε...Elizabeth Barrett Browning HesiodTheogonyPrint: Book
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell theological worksPrint: Book
1900-1945'After a stormy passage I find myself once more at Alexandria and Sheyk Obeyd. During the voyage I read Frederick [sic] Harrison's novel which he has just published, a st...Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Frederic HarrisonTheophano: The Crusade of the Tenth CenturyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Heinrich JungTheorie der Geister-KundePrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1754: 'Did you ever read a little French book called Theorie des Sentimens Agreables? [...] I have some curiosity abo...anon Louis-Jean Lévesque de PouillyTheorie des sentimens agréablesPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 March 1754: '"Theorie des Sentimens Agreables" I have read some years ago, and quite forget. It made no deep impression upon m...Catherine Talbot Louis-Jean Lévesque de PouillyTheorie des sentimens agreablesPrint: Book
1900-1945Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume; read January 1925Vernon Lee Beatrice EdgellTheories of MemoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different...Members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]Theory of LanguageManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?...Thomas Carter Jung StillingTheory of pneumatologyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1841: 'Mrs Niven may keep the Pneumatology as long, just as long, as she pleases. I am glad she cares to look ...Mary Russell Mitford Johann Heinrich Jung-StillingTheory of PneumatologyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter dated Monday 15 January 1838] Have you seen that book of Bernard's on the Constitution? Not fit for every eye. On electing monarchy and state religion he seems a ...Anne Lister J. B. BernardTheory of the Constitution Compared with its PractPrint: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday the 10th. I began reading Burret's "Theory of the Earth", w'ch I found in my library, in w'ch I soon became so interested that I devoted the whole of every ev...John Marsh Thomas BurnettTheory of the EarthPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Taylor, 'There for a token I did thinke it meete'. Elizabeth Lyttelton John TaylorThere for a token I did thinke it meeteUnknown


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