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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Smith August 7 1784 'You and he too have this in common, that you both appear to most advantage on paper, where your diffidence does not stand in your way....Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William CollinsAddress to simplicityPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Smith May 26 1789 'Pray read Dr Gregory?s Comparative View, &c. and observe particularly the last section on the influence of religion; that on taste; and t...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John GregoryA comparative view of the state and faculties of m...Print: Book
1800-1849Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junction with what Saussure calls the 'poudingues de Valors...John Ruskin Horace Benedict de SaussureVoyages dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter xiv- "On Buffon's natural history" is a critique of the workJohn Aikin Georges-Louis Leclerc BuffonHistoire NaturellePrint: Book
1700-1799Letter XLIII To Miss Dunbar, Boath/ Laggan April 11, 1803, 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read them. It is her monument I am de...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Laurence Sterne[Letters from Yorick to Eliza?]Print: Book
Letter, 25/11/1860 - "I have opposite me at my worktable, a sketch of Rossetti's of the princess - (Parizade; the story is the last in the Arabian nights."John Ruskin Arabian NightsPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter, 25/11/1860 - 'The opening of the note enclosed from Mrs Browning refers to my having spoken of Lord John's last dispatch as giving me courage to write to her abou...John Ruskin Lord John Russell Print: Newspaper
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letters on Mythology Addressed to a Lady by R. Morgan, 1 vol. A humourous and entertaining production, written in a light and easy style, to make it palatable to a lady's...Ellen Weeton R MorganLetters on MythologyPrint: Book
1900-1945Linking a childhood memory of a great storm with a subsequent reading of Conrad's work: 'The wind blowing from this quarter is not like the south-west wind of the No...William Henry Hudson Joseph ConradThe Mirror of the SeaPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler Madame de MetternicheMemoiresPrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Print: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler CorneilleTheatro du Grand CorneillesPrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler RacineTheatro et oevres de RacinePrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler DanteLa Divina CommediaPrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler Pietro Metastasioopera (16 Tom)Print: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler GilpinNorthern TourPrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler Thomas GrayWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849Little doing this day...Have been reading at Gifford's History of the War and have followed Bonaparte into Egypt in July 1798. That summer I was at Rothie keeping Mr Hays...Adam Mackie C.H. GiffordHistory of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1700-1799Long description of character of Sir Keneth (?) Digby. 'By his eager pursuit of knowledge seemed to be born only for contemplation, but he was thought to be so well qua...Frances Hamilton Rev J GrangerBiographical History of England from Egbert the Gr...Print: Book
1700-1799Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France: 'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too enterprizing, presuming too much upon his own opinio...Frances Hamilton [unknown]Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully,...Print: Book


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