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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I have been reading Sir. Robert Vansittart's little book "Black Record". I have found it very interesting. He certainly has no use for the Germans, and I am wondering wh...Robert VansittartBlack RecordPrint: Book
1900-1945'I suppose I retained this view for about nine months. My thoughts have now radically changed, and this is due in a marked degree to the reading of Sir Robert Vansittart'...Robert VansittartBlack RecordPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Walpole's Turkey and M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China'.Benjamin Newton Robert WalpoleMemoirs relating to European and Asiatic TurkeyPrint: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 22 April 1827: 'Wrought [i.e. worked] in the afternoon and tried to read De Vere, a sensible but heavy book written by an able hand -- but a great bore for all...Walter Scott Robert WardDe VerePrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 4 July 1827: 'Read De Vere the rest. It is well written in point of language and sentiment but has too little action in it to be termd a pleasing Novel. Eve...Walter Scott Robert WardDe VerePrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Robert WatsonHistory of the Reign of Philip IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Robert WatsonHistory of Philip IIIPrint: Book
1600-1699'in the evening, my wife and I all alone, with the boy, by water up as high as Putney almost with the tide, and back again, neither staying, going nor coming; but talking...Elizabeth Pepys Robert WildUpon the rebuilding the city ... the Lord Mayor an...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'... but I suppressed it at once and kept on at Wodrow's Analecta (a Covenanting book) and made my notes as best I could.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert WodrowAnalectaPrint: Book
1850-1899'It contains more detailed accounts than anything I ever saw, except Wodrow ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert WodrowThe History of the Suffrings of the Church of Scot...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have read one half (about 900 pages) of Wodrow's Correspondence, with some improvement but great fatigue.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert WodrowThe Correspondence of the Rev Robert WodrowPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850, regarding possible publication of letters between herself and Robert Southey: 'I have now read them and feel...Charlotte Bronte Robert and Charlotte Southey and BrontelettersManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together...Joseph Conrad Robert Bontine Cunninghame GrahamHis People and Other Tales and SketchesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thanks ever so much for the book ["Father Archangel of Scotland, and Other Essays"]. I have read it once so far. The more I read you the more I admire. This is a str...Joseph Conrad Robert Bontine Cunninghame GrahamFather Archangel of Scotland, and Other EssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I rec your play and Annual. Thank you very much. The play is gorgeous, one of the chiefest pleasures of my leave days; and for this I thank you indeed. The ideas are...Isaac Rosenberg Robert Calverley Trevelyan[plays]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'Whenever Leisure and Inclination permit me the pleasure of a visit, I shall feel truly gratified in a personal acquainta...George Gordon Lord Byron Robert Charles DallasunknownUnknown
Byron to unknown female correspondent (mother of author of poem sent for Byron's consideration), 17 August 1814: 'The poem from which you have done me the honour to enlo...George Gordon Lord Byron Robert Charles Dallas [?][poem]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'According to R.C.K. Ensor's "Miniature History of the War", "the annihilating raid on Lubeck...and the raid of 1,130 bombers on Cologne...each marked an epoch" in Allied...Vera Brittain Robert Charles Kirkwood EnsorMiniature History of the WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you very much for Mr Holliday's book, which has certainly got a lot of good things in it and which I enjoyed greatly.'Joseph Conrad Robert Cortes HollidayunspecifiedPrint: Book
1600-1699'I spent the after none in my Chamber and hard Mr Rhodes read a book that was mad, as it was saied, by my lord of Esex in defence of his owne Causes'Richard Rhodes Robert Devereux, Earl of EssexApology of the Earl of Essex against those who fal...Print: Book


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