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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799home [from going to see the King's weekly procession at Kew] & Read the NewsJohn Yeoman  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole (as 'Thelyphthorus') to Mary Berry, 28 April 1789: 'I send you the most delicious poem upon earth [Erasmus Darwin, "The Botanic Garden"] [...] This is only...Horace Walpole Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden (part 1)Print: Unknown
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 10 July 1789: 'I enclose a most beautiful copy of verses which Miss H[annah]. More wrote very lately when she was with [the Bishop of London...Horace Walpole Hannah More[verses on opening of walk by Bishop of London]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 11 March 1791: 'I saw in today's newspaper, that the wife of the Margrave of Anspach is dead.'Horace Walpole newspaper report of death of wife of Margrave of A...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 12 July 1791: ' Mr. Batt [...] dined with me yesterday, and stayed till after breakfast today [...] Last night I redde to him certain remini...Horace Walpole unknownreminiscencesUnknown
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 14 November 1793: 'I was grieved this morning to read in the papers that poor Jardin and his family have been taken by a French privateer, a...Horace Walpole NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 15 October 1793: 'I called on the Princesse d'Hennin, who has been in town a week [...] She showed me several pieces of letters, I think fro...Horace Walpole ?Duchesse ?de BouillonLetters on developments in Revolutionary FranceManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 16 October 1790, on concerns for her and her family's safety on return from travels in Europe: 'I saw in yesterday's newspaper that two hoys...Horace Walpole newspaper report of shipwreckPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 17 October (in letter begun 16 October) 1790, on visit from his friend, and Berry's cousin, Miss Seton that day: 'As she was going she desir...Horace Walpole Matthew PriorThe Turtle and the Sparrow: A TalePrint: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 17 October (in letter begun 16 October) 1790, on visit from his friend, and Berry's cousin, Miss Seton that day: 'As she was going she desir...Horace Walpole Matthew PriorApollo and DaphnePrint: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 20 July 1791: 'I inclose the best printed account, I have seen, of the riots at Birmingham from yesterday's paper.'Horace Walpole newspaper reports of Birmingham riotsPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 21 April 1794: 'I have found on my table a rhapsody in verse on my recovery, so extravagant that, coupled with the post-mark [italics]Islewo...Horace Walpole anonpoem on recovery of Horace Walpole [apparently fro...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sanscrit paragraph which you found t'other morning in Mur...Horace Walpole [probably] James Murphy[probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 17...Print: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sanscrit paragraph which you found t'other morning in Mur...Mary Berry [probably] James Murphy[probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 17...Print: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 23 November 1793, on meeting Edward Jerningham ('the Charming Man') at a gathering at the home of their friend Anne Damer the previous eveni...Horace Walpole Edward JerninghamPrologue to The Siege of BerwickPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 24 September 1794, 'near one [pm]': 'The Churchills are here in the room while I write [...] just as I was going to begin my letter, the new...Horace Walpole and Mr Churchill newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 27 November 1795, 'half after noon': 'Mr. Coxe, whom I could not dismiss, has sat reading to me till this instant, till I can scarce save th...Mr Coxe Life of Robert WalpoleUnknown
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 27 September 1794: 'I was diverted a few days ago by a paragraph in the "True Briton", which, supposing that the Prince [of Wales] is to res...Horace Walpole The True BritonPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790, 'at night': 'While I write, Mr. Lysons has been turning over Le Neve's "Monumenta Anglicana," and has found that [italics]nine...Mr Lysons John le NeveMonumenta Anglicana: Inscriptions on the Monuments...Print: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790: 'I do hope you will be staggered about a longer journey [in Italy] for some time. But two days ago I saw a new paragraph of T...Horace Walpole newspaper report on political developments in Ital...Print: Newspaper


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