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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1700-1799	'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...	Mr Murphy	Thomas Gray	[Memoirs]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Gray	[Memoirs]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In one of his little memorandum-books I find the following hints for his intended "Review or Literary Journal": "[italics] The Annals of Literature, foreign as well as ...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[memoranda for a projected literary journal]	Manuscript: Codex, memorandum book
	1700-1799	'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to com...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[memoranda of his reading]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'[…] I’ve been to church and am not depressed − a great step. I was at that beautiful church my P.P.P.[Petit Poeme en Prose] was about. It is a little cruciform pla...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Anon [Apprently the father of the dead child]	[memorial on grave]	Manuscript: Inscription carved on school slate.
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c.3 April 1792: '"A soul prepard needs no delays/ The summons come the Saint obey —/ Swift was his flight & short the road/...	Robert Southey	anon	[memorial verse]	Print: monument
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Uvedale Price to Mary Berry,18 December 1813, discussing the importance of association and the physical senses in aesthetics: 'Fitzpatrick, in that exquisite poem I once ...	Uvedale Price	Fitzpatrick	[metaphysical] poem	Unknown
	1600-1699	'Up, and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday, he himself putting it into my hand to read; but Lord, it is a poor s...	Elizabeth Pepys	Middleton	[Middleton's memorandum]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. F...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Thomas Jonathan Jackson	[Military History]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'I have been regaled at every Inn on the road [from Newstead to London] by lampoons and other merry conceits on myself in the minist...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	[ministerial gazettes]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a former part of this work, expressed my high opinion; ...	James Boswell	William Mason	[minor poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H.M. Wallis one on the minor poems. F.E. Reynolds rea...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Thomas Hardy	[minor poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37 Alfred Rawlings in the Chair 1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...	Victor Alexander	Victor Alexander	[Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club (those no...	Manuscript: Notebook
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37 Alfred Rawlings in the Chair 1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...	Victor Alexander	Victor Alexander	[Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club (those re...	Manuscript: Notebook
	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...	Victor Alexander	Victor Alexander	[Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 14 M...	Manuscript: Notebook
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dis...	Victor Alexander	Victor Alexander	[Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 16 F...	Manuscript: Notebook
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33 Francis E. Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last read & approved. 5. Eight anonymo...	Victor Alexander	Victor Alexander	[Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 17 F...	Manuscript: Notebook
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Reckitt House, L. P. : 17. ii. 33 Reginald H. Robson in the Chair 1. Minutes of last read & approved.	Victor Alexander	Victor Alexander	[Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 18 J...	Manuscript: Notebook
	1900-1945	Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35 Francis E. Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last read and approved.	Victor Alexander	Victor Alexander	[Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 18 J...	Manuscript: Notebook
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934 F. E. Pollard in the chair 1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the s...	XII Book Club	Victor Alexander	[Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 20 M...	Manuscript: Notebook

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