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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Many MS notes, incl. some copied from Lord Macaulay's own copy of Livy: "I copied these marginal notes, and lines, from Macaulay's Bipontine edition in the winter of 1910...George Otto Trevelyan Livy Historiorum libriPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS notes, some of which are transcribed from those of Lord Macaulay in another edition: "Macaulay's notes and marginal lines (on the outside margins) are transferred...George Otto Trevelyan Cornelius TacitusOpera omniaPrint: Book
1850-1899March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rud...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-1899March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rud...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensBarnaby RudgePrint: Book
1850-1899March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rud...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensOld Curiosity Shop, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rud...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensPickwick Papers, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 11 February 1756: 'My good old folks --you can't think how I love them! -- the more I believe, because they hearken w...Margaret Collier Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 3 October 1755: 'I met with some lines the other day in a translation of a famous Italian poet, which in a few expres...Margaret Collier AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'I still feel anxiety, painful anxiety, for some good account of those I knew and esteemed at Lisb...Margaret Collier newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'My good old folks were desirous that I should read Clarissa to them, which gave me a fourth time t...Margaret Collier Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'My good old folks were desirous that I should read Clarissa to them, which gave me a fourth time t...Margaret Collier Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1850-1899Margaret Wooler, Charlotte Bronte's former schoolteacher, to Ellen Nussey, another former pupil (1857):

'Did I name to you that Mrs E. Gibson knows two or ...		'young ladies'Charlotte BrontëVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899Margaret Wooler, Charlotte Bronte's former schoolteacher, to Ellen Nussey, another former pupil (1857):

'Mrs Palmer says she was more interested in [Charlo...		Mrs Palmer Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1800-1849Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cross and the marginal comment then arguing a related ...John Drummond Erskine Adam DicksonAn essay on the causes of the present high price o...Print: Book
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes throughout, incl. v.2 giving Nov 12 1904 as the "second time of reading" and v.1 July 24, 1920: "3rd time of reading A most excellent military...George Otto Trevelyan Felix BouvierBonaparte en ItaliePrint: Book
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes throughout,including p.xiii: "[The author's husband] deeply disapproved of her pleasure-seeking ways at such a time [...] Her hospitality had ...George Otto Trevelyan Mary Boykin ChesnutA diary from DixiePrint: Book
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes. Dates of reading on final page and the note: "What was the year when we saw so much of the American family who so much reminded us of the Dos...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe reverberatorPrint: Book
Marginal marks show signs of George Otto Trevelyan's close reading, as of a proof - he corrects errors, e.g. where the text says "many would prefer expatriating themselve...George Otto Trevelyan Sir Robert Thomas WilsonPrivate diary of travels, personal services, and p...Print: Book
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1900-1945		Marginal MS notes throughout. MS on flyleaf: "GO Trevelyan Harrow 1854". On half-title: "The lines in the outer margins are Macaulay's Sophocles i.e. read while Macaulay ...Sophocles Sophoclis Tragodiae superstitesPrint: Book
1500-1599Marginal notes appear throughout this book, on almost every page. These notes range from comments written in Latin shorthand, underlinings, numbers marking particular pas...anon Petrus de Palude [?]Sermones thesauri novi de temporePrint: Book


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