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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
    22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.

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The following essays wer...		Elizabeth T. Alexander Muriel StevensHis Good TurnManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
    Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.

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4. The subject of the eveni...		Muriel Stevens Muriel Stevens[on Ruskin’s theories on art & artists]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 6th June ’42 A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. Apologies for absence were read from Muriel Stevens and Mary Stansfield
2....		Margaret Dilks Muriel Stevens[apologies for absence from a meeting of the XII B...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945Published in The Woman Worker, newspaper: 'As I sat engaged with the very charming adventures of Zobeide, in the "Arabian Nights", and just as I had reached the spot w...Ethel Carnie N AArabian NightsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In reference to 'N.A.'s' notes on young Rob Roy, I should like to ask the writer if he will kindly inform us what authority he has for understanding so much in his notes...Robert Louis Stevenson N. A.'Young Rob Roy' in Stirling Observer Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Another book: Missing Believed Prisoner, is by a South African captured at Sidi Rezegh. Those awful marches through the desert with no food or water. The Camp with sta...Vere Hodgson N. I. RobinsonMissing, Believed Prisoner: The Story of a South A...Print: Book
1900-1945'Tidied room and read Outdoor World. Wrote to Sommy.'Verena Vera Pennefather n/a n/aThe Outdoor WorldPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'After lunch read the Paper & wrote some letters.'Verena Pennefather n/a n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

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7. We then listened to a nu...		Charles E. Stansfield Nancy PriceShadows on the HillsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detective stories, I like Naomi Jacobs' early ones. I read ...Naomi Jacobs[early works]Print: Book
1900-1945'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Places"'.Hilary Spalding Naomi MichisonConquered, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 2 June 1932: 'Lord David [Cecil]'s party last night. Half across London [...] Edwardes Sq[a]re very large leafy silent Georgian refined: so too no. 41 [...] Talk...Virginia Woolf Naomi MitchisonReview of W. H. Auden, The OratorsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to his wife, 20 July 1815: '[General] Becker showed us a copy of Buonaparte's letter to the Prince Regent, in which he says that driven out of hom...John Wilson Croker Napoleon Bonaparteletter to the Prince RegentManuscript: Unknown, Copied.
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Napoleon BonaparteCodice di Napoleone il Grande pel Regno d'ItaliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'For lighter reading we had the Shah's Diary, a work whose child-like simplicity admitted of but one interpretation. I never got through very much of it, but I did ...Gertrude Bell Naser al-Din Shah QajarDiariesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		" ... Gilbert Frankau ... read ... [Nat Gould's novels] while at Eton at the turn of the century ..."Gilbert Frankau Nat GouldnovelsPrint: Book
"For [Nat] Gould, the highest commendation of his 'art' came ... when Walter Home, the Routledge's representative who snapped up The Double Event, told him that he nearly...Walter Home Nat GouldThe Double EventPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bought mackintosh 29m knife 3. Heavy snow. Read Harry Dale's Jockey Wild Rose by Nat Gould ... Herring for breakfast.'William Thomas Nat GouldHarry Dale's Jockey "Wild Rose", Her Life and Adve...Print: Book
1700-1799Manuscript list of 'The Proverbs & c in this Book' (in Dawson's hand) has been bound into the rear of the book.John Dawson Nathan BaileyUniversal Etymological DictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got a perusal of "The Life and Adventures of Sir Willia...Nathan BaileyDictionarium BritannicumPrint: Book


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