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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a copy of your poem "To a Lady fond of Life?" She she...Mrs Donnelon Elizabeth Carter'To a Lady Fond of Life'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a copy of your poem "To a Lady fond of Life?" She she...Sir George Lyttleton Elizabeth Carter'To a Lady Fond of Life'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'To a Lady Weeping "Weep, daughter of a royal line..."'George or Edward Carey George Gordon, Lord Byron'To A Lady Weeping'Print: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?]on Burns as song...Pattie Stansfield Robert Burns'To a Mountain Daisy'Print: Book
1900-1945'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?]on Burns as song...Pattie Stansfield Robert Burns'To a Mouse'Print: Book
1800-1849'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your others and as long as that is admired (which it ever wil...James Hogg Walter Scott'To Henry Erskine, Esq'Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer ...Alfred Tennyson Andrew Marvell'To His Coy MistressUnknown
1800-1849'I recieved yours accompanying the beautifull complimentary verses, which are judged by the small circle of my friends to be the best that ever have appeared in our langu...James Hogg Bernard Barton'To James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, author of Th...Unknown
1800-1849'I think the stanzas greatly improved and they are in the press as an introduction to the second edition of the [italics] wake [end italics]. There was one term which I w...James Hogg Bernard Barton'To James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, author of Th...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr James brought me some pretty Verses about Melancholy written by a Boy; Mr James tasting Verses in praise of Melancholy seems odd enough, as he is a merry Mortal, and ...Hester Lynch Thrale 'To Melancholy'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conceit original; but it is not - There is an old Greek E...Hester Lynch Salusbury Dr Parker'To Miss Salusbury'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Having given some verses 'To Miss Salusbury', thought to be by Sarah Fielding] These verses are nothing extraordinary God knows, but I dare say they are hers; though th...Hester Lynch Thrale Sarah Fielding'To Miss Salusbury'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To my Daughter" - Lord Byron'.Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord Byron'To My Daughter'Unknown
1800-1849[Charlotte Bury went to see Humphry Davy, hoping to enlist his support in a subscription for James Hogg] 'and the visit was productive to me of a great treasure; for seei...Charlotte Bury Humphry Davy'To the Glow-Worm'Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from Thomas Sprat's 'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince, Oliver Lord Protector, &c. P...Edward Pordage Thomas Sprat'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince,...Print: Book
1800-1849In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life": 'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morrow", in which the procrastinator gives the history o...Elizabeth Missing Sewell ?Maria ?Edgeworth'To-morrow'Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Anderson, 12 January 1842: 'In reading "Tom Cringle's Log" to my father, the other day, I find that Mr Scott, the author, speaks of t...Mary Russell Mitford Scott'Tom Cringle's Log'Print: Unknown
1900-1945' "Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become important in the poetry may play quite a negligible...Edward Morgan Forster T. S. Eliot'Tradition and the Individual Talent'Print: Book
1800-1849'I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of "Daniel" as you did at the original the conceit is excellent indeed I see that mine was quite an imperfect thi...James Hogg James Hogg'Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 14 November 1807: 'Miss Trimmer [former governess and companion] went out of town yesterday morning and I...Georgiana, Countess Dowager Spencer and Lady Harriet CavendishFrancis Garden'travelling Memorandums'Print: Book


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