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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945H. J. Jackson notes recollection of friend of Rupert Brooke, of Brooke in a canoe c.1910-11: "'he would keep the paddle going with his left hand, and with the other make ...Rupert Brooke ?John ?Webster Print: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's annotations, at owners' requests, of copies of Barry Cornwall, Dramatic Scenes, and Charles Tennyson Turner, Sonnets and Fugitive Pi...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Barry CornwallDramatic ScenesPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's annotations, at owners' requests, of copies of Barry Cornwall, Dramatic Scenes, and Charles Tennyson Turner, Sonnets and Fugitive Pi...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles Tennyson TurnerSonnets and Fugitive PiecesPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's presentation of a copy of Richard Field, Of the Church, annotated by himself, to his son Derwent in 1819.Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard FieldOf the ChurchPrint: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson notes T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysi...T. H. White Sigmund FreudIntroductory Lectures on Psycho-AnalysisPrint: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson notes T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysi...T. H. White Alfred AdlerPractice and Theory of Individual PsychologyPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes that Coleridge wrote "an extraordinary set of notes ... designed to help [Robert] Southey with a review" into a copy of James Sedgwick, Hints to the P...Samuel Taylor Coleridge James SedgwickHints to the Public and Legislature, on the Nature...Print: Book
H. J. Jackson notes unknown reader's marginal contradiction of assertion of Samuel Johnson that a dog will be as likely to take a small piece of meat as a large one, when...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson notes, partially reproduces, and discusses lengthy annotations, including mock completion of title and close, argumentative marginal responses to text, made...anon Richard WatsonA Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of CanterburyPrint: Unknown
H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but the first syllable of a word, recorded by James Bos...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but the first syllable of a word, recorded by James Bos...anon Annotation in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Jo...Manuscript: annotation in printed text
1900-1945H. M. Wallis delighted us with an account of War Time Tree fellings Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage WallisWar Time Tree FellingsManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899H. R. H. Prince Albert to Alfred Tennyson, 17 May 1860: 'Will you forgive me if I intrude upon your leisure with a request which I have thought some little time of mak...Prince Albert Alfred TennysonIdylls of the KingPrint: Book
1700-1799Had a fire in my own Room. Mother sup'd with me there. Read 'The Lucky Mistake' - Mrs Behn.Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1800-1849Had no company. Passed the afternoon reading part of Boston's Fourfold State.Adam Mackie Thomas BostonHuman Nature in its Fourfold StatePrint: Book
1800-1849had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday.Anne Lister William EmersonMechanics or The Principles of MechanicsPrint: Book
1800-1849Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday and whi...Anne Lister William EmersonThe principle of mechanicsUnknown
1900-1945Harold and I are the subject of song in Hureidha at present. Old Abdulla the watch-mender came some evenings ago to present me with an ode in my honour. He had it o...Freya Stark Abdulla The watch-mender of Huraidha[Arabic qasida (praise poem) in praise of Freya St...Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Cavendish (1798): 'The dinner here consisted of Mr. Hare sitting all the evening with his taper legs crossed like a tay...Mr Hare Gazette ExtraordinaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Cavendish, 10 October 1801: 'We arrived here last night [...] This morning [...] Caro [Caroline Ponsonby, cousin] and...Harriet Cavendish Gallery catalogue, Hardwick HallUnknown


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