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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837: 'Barring the "Bubbles" (which I read because you recommended it to Nimrod [i.e. C. Apperly]) and Washington Irving's works, ...Scrope Davies 'Bubbles'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Mr Longman to John Murray, from 2 Hanover Terrace (1838): 'Can you oblige me by letting me have a third volume of ["]Wilberforce." The fact is, that at in [sic] read...Mr Alexander 'Wilberforce' vol. 3Print: Book
1800-1849Sir Robert Peel to John Murray, 7 July 1840: 'I forgot to thank you for the last edition of the Handbook, but I have found leisure to look into it, and have read man...Sir Robert Peel 'Handbook'Print: Book
1800-1849Sir Robert Peel to John Murray, 7 July 1840: 'I forgot to thank you for the last edition of the Handbook, but I have found leisure to look into it, and have read man...Sir Robert Peel 'account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris'Print: Book
1800-1849Sir Francis Head to John Murray, 26 June 1842: 'My son will be quite proud at receiving the [italics]first[end italics] copy of the new Quarterly, the only one, I be...Sir Francis Head The Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849George Borrow to John Murray junior, 1 December 1842: 'Yesterday read "Letters from the Baltic"; much pleased with it; very clever writer; critique in Despatch harsh...George Borrow Review of Miss Rigby, Letters from the BalticPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849George Borrow to John Murray junior, 31 December 1842: 'With respect to the critique [of his The Bible in Spain] in the Times, I fully agree with you that it was har...George Borrow Review of George Borrow, The Bible in SpainPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849George Borrow to John Murray junior, 31 December 1842: 'With respect to the critique [of his The Bible in Spain] in the Times, I fully agree with you that it was har...George Borrow Review of George Borrow, The Bible in SpainPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849George Borrow to John Murray, 25 February 1843: 'I have seen the article in the Edinburgh about the Bible [in Spain] -- exceedingly brilliant and clever, but rather ...George Borrow Review of George Borrow, The Bible in SpainPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...Florence Reynolds 'Wedding Presents'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...Sylvanus Reynolds Arms of WipplecrackPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'The elections are coming on, and Paris is full of the strangest manifestoes from this or the other candidate. Some − mostly the Republicans − simply state th...Robert Louis Stevenson  Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Newspaper, Pamphlet, Poster
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted (except for a pianoforte solo & a pianola performance) to a dramatic rendering of the Penn & Mead trial the cast being as under. Lor...Members of XII Reading Group [Penn and Mead trial]Print: Unknown
1850-18991 November 1858: 'Went to Drury lane [theatre] where we had stalls. The Opera was the Maritana, and was pretty enough [...] but I could not help thinking there was som...Lady Charlotte Schreiber report of death of W. BlagrovePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'When not in the curiosity shops, or examining and washing her [ceramic] purchases in the hotel, Lady Charlotte read a great deal. After revelling "in that pleasant life ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Life of MacaulayPrint: Book
1850-1899'That evening [12 June 1878] the Schreibers read an announcement in the Times that Sir Charles Du Cane, whom they had expected to present himself as a candidate for Colch...Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber report of Sir Charles Du Cane's appointment to Gov...Print: Newspaper
1850-189919 June 1878: 'A really warm day, quite summer at last. I did not go out till after dinner. I have finished Alroy, and am reading Wilhelm Meister.' Lady Charlotte Schreiber Wilhelm MeisterPrint: Book
1850-189910 July 1878: 'This morning we saw in the Times of the 28th ult., that Sir E. Tyler is the probable candidate for Colchester at the next election, so I fear all our as...Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber report of Sir E. Tyler's probable Parliamentary ca...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After a few days at Canford the Schreibers visited Lord St. Germans, a great invalid, at Port Eliot in Cornwall. Lady Charlotte read to him, sometimes for as long as fou...Lady Charlotte Schreiber  Print: Unknown
1850-189925 November 1879, following account of husband's attendance at Conservative Party dinner at Poole, and late return home: 'It must have been 1/2 past 2 ere I was in bed...Lady Charlotte Schreiber PsalmPrint: Book


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