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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas JeffersonMemoirs, Correspondence, and Private PapersPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1.Gertrude Savile Thomas JevonThe Devil of a WifePrint: Book
1800-1849'Dawdling over Keightley's history of the war in Greece, compiled out of all the newspapers and all the memoirs. Full enough of incident certainly; for the author seems t...John Mitchel Thomas KeightleyHistory of the War of Independence in GreecePrint: Book
1700-1799'tis in clearing one's charicter, as in taking spotts outof one's cloaths. You make it ten times bigger and seldom or never efface the first stains'. (Chit-Chat)Gertrude Savile Thomas KilligrewChit-Chat. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the TheatrePrint: Book
1900-1945'My talk on "The Development of Malayan Surveys" is read by Sworder. It goes very well. Many people come and congratulate me on it.'Thomas KitchingThe Development of Malayan SurveysManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Thomas KydSpanish TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'Beppo is an innovation is he not? [...] if there are five acts of 500 lines each, it will not be the longest play on...Leonard Woolf Thomas KydThe Spanish TragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel considerably improved.Anne Lister Thomas LelandAll the Orations of Demosthenes Translated into EnUnknown
1700-1799'[letter from Johnson to Charles O' Connor] Dr. Leland begins his history too late: the ages which deserve an exact enquiry are those times (for such there were) when Ire...Samuel Johnson Thomas LelandHistory of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II, ...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 November 1765:] 'What an agreeable fellow was that Philip of Macedon! We are reading his history; but the wise and elegant At...Catherine Talbot and familyThomas LelandThe History of the Life and Reign of Philip, King ...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Written in the Blank Leaf of a Lady’s common place Book', lines beginning 'Here is one leaf reserv’...Catherine Austen Thomas LittleWritten in the Blank Leaf of a Lady's Common Place...Unknown
1800-1849'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were never written by the same person. If I mistake not -...Thomas Carlyle Thomas M'CrieVindication of the CovenantersPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Wu notes translated extract from Sir Bors' lament for Arthur (in the Morte D'Arthur of Thomas Malory) in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book.Wordsworth FamilyThomas MaloryMorte D'ArthurManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'When the seventeen-year-old seaman entered Mr Pratt's bookstore on Sixth Avenue near Greenwich Avenue, he bought his first volume of Sir Thomas Malory's Morete d'Arthur;...John Masefield Thomas MaloryMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include part of Le Morte D'Arthur, XX.3, opening: ' "So upon Trinity Sunday at night King Arthur dreamed ...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas MaloryLe Morte D'ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage about the battle with the Romans. He went to meet M...Alfred Tennyson Thomas MaloryMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899'On Feb. 17th [1861] my father told my mother about his plan for a new poem, "The Northern Farmer." 'By the evening of Feb. 18th he had already written down a great pa...Alfred and Emily TennysonThomas MaloryMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have nearly finished The Morte D'arthur. I am more pleased at having bought it every day, as it has opened up a new world to me. I had no idea that the Arthurian leg...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas MaloryLe Morte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have been reading again the second volume of Malory, especially the part of the "Sangreal" which I had forgotten. With all its faults, in small doses this book i...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas MaloryLe Morte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1800-1849"In January 1804 Coleridge annotated, heavily, in pencil, the first dozen or so pages of a copy of Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population by way of assista...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of PopulationPrint: Book


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