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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at the Council Board, with great good liking'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[Report]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the Duke of York hath from mine wrote to the board; wher...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the Duke of York hath from mine wrote to the board; wher...Sir William Coventry Samuel Pepys[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up about the several answers of the...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[paper on naval business]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up about the several answers of the...Matthew Wren Samuel Pepys[paper on naval business]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'Up, and I did, by a little note which I flung to Deb, advise her that I did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, and so she might govern herself ... The girl read, a...Deborah Willet Samuel Pepys[note]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'This evening comes Mr Billup to me to read over Mr Wren's alterations of my draft of a letter for the Duke of York to sign, to the board; which I like mighty well, they ...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[letter with corrections by Matthew Wren]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'Thence home; and after dinner, by water with Tom down to Greenwich, he reading to me all the way, coming and going, my collections out of the Duke of York's old manuscri...Tom Edwards Samuel Pepys[work on naval history]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and home, where I made my boy to finish the reading of my manuscript; and so to supper and to bed.'Tom Edwards Samuel Pepys[work on naval history]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so with W. Hewer to the Cock, and there he and I dined alone with great content, he reading to me, for my memory sake, my late collections of the history of the Navy...William Hewer Samuel Pepys[work on naval history]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and there, by and by being called in, Mr Williamson did read over our paper, which was in a letter to the Duke of York, bound up in a book with the Duke of York's book o...Samuel Pepys[defence of the existing constitution of the Navy ...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Towe...Sarah Harriet Burney Samuel PepysMemoirs of Samuel PepysPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Mary Robson Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Rosamund Wallis Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Reginald Robson Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Ernest E. Unwin Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870: 'Nov. 8th. [...] A. read me Pepys' Diary [...] We read about starlings in Morris; I did not know (what A. had put into his Idyll [...Alfred Tennyson Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberSamuel PepysJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899'On the rising of Parliament [on 7 September 1880] the Schreibers were free to go abroad once more. On this occasion they made Cologne their first stopping-place. The eve...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberSamuel PepysJournalPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary th...

Reginald H. Robson Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book


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