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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Patrick ColquhounA Treatise on IndigencePrint: Book
1700-1799'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he says that he gives a most dreadful idea of the state...Joseph Evans Patrick ColquhounTreatise of the police of the metrpolisPrint: Book
1700-1799'in one of the Sermons on Social Duties, published lately by a [italics] real [end italics] Divine, he makes this Observation, That he believes, very few Women have eithe...Laetitia Pilkington Patrick DelanyFifteen Sermons upon Social DutiesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I found him at home in the morning. He praised Delany's "Observations on Swift ;" said that his book and Lord Orrery's might both be true, though one viewed Swift more, ...Samuel Johnson Patrick DelanyObservations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Lif...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Brief marginal notes in pencil in English throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Patrick GeddesThe Evolution of SexPrint: Book
1900-1945Brief marginal notes in pencil in English throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Patrick GeddesEvolutionPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tho. Davy came in after supper and stayed with us about 2 1/2 hours. He and I looked over Gordon's "Geographical Grammar", and in particular the religions of all nations...Thomas Turner Patrick GordonGeography anatomized: or a compleat geographical g...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: has pencil annotations, opposite the title page and inside front cover, relating to the history and purchase of the book "Mr Heber certifies to me, that t...Patrick GordonFamous history of the renown'd and valiant prince,...Print: Book
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & go...George Crabbe Patrick KeithSystems of Physiological BotanyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I think MacGill has written one or two excellent things on the Push. [Patrick MacGill, The Great Push , 1916] I do want you to realise that intelligent people here, th...Arnold Bennett Patrick MacGillThe Great PushPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Patrick MansonTropical DiseasesPrint: Book
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Patrick Murdoch[Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The S...Print: Book
1800-1849'Trade very dull - weather very wet and rather windy as predicted by Murphy'.Joseph Jenkinson Patrick MurphyThe Weather Almanack, 1838-39Print: Book, almanac
1850-1899'To my utter amazement, I had a letter to-day from Patrick O'Donohue, who has been permitted to live in the city of Hobart Town, informing me that he has established a ne...John Mitchel Patrick O'Donohue (editor)Irish ExilePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		Walter Scott to John Murray, 23 March 1818: 'I laid Kirkton aside when half finished, from a desire to get the original edition of the "Lives of Cameron," &c., by Patr...Walter Scott Patrick Walker'Lives of Cameron [etc]'Print: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott to John Murray, 23 March 1818: 'I laid Kirkton aside when half finished, from a desire to get the original edition of the "Lives of Cameron," &c., by Patr...Walter Scott Patrick Walker'Lives of Cameron [etc]'Print: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged to you for Tytler, which I have read with pleasure and not without profit: it is a smooth, easy Book; seems well-founded, accurate, authentic; and with...Thomas Carlyle Patrick Fraser TytlerHistory of ScotlandPrint: BookUnknown
1850-1899'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some char...Pattie Stansfield Pattie Stansfield[paper on Browning]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A letter from Mrs Stansfield was read inviting the club to 29 Upper Redlands Rd for the next meeting'.Ernest E. Unwin Pattie Stansfield[letter to the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'In a shop in Buchanan Street, there was exposed a little gold wristlet with 'Phil. 1.3' upon it; look it up in the New Testament and take the text, meine schone Freundin...Robert Louis Stevenson Paul Epistle to the Philippians, I.3Print: wristlet


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