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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899My dear Mrs Oliphant, I address you freely, because I have a full heart just now; and I had rather speak foolishly out of my enthusiasm than hold my tongue afterwards in ...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret OliphantA Beleaguered City.Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Let me thank you for the Swinburne bibliography which I've read with the greatest interest.'Joseph Conrad Thomas James WiseA Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr Dunn has Grainger's "Biographical History of England". A medallion of Cromwell is mentioned having Oliver's head engraved on one side, and on the reverse ... his head...William Richard Grahame James GrangerA Biographical History of England ... Adapted to aPrint: Book
1800-1849'All day I have been arranging prints for Grainger's Biography. There is a good story of Jerry White, Cromwell's Chaplain.'William Richard Grahame James GrangerA Biographical History of England ... Adapted to aPrint: Book
1800-1849'Continuing the arrangement of Plates for Grainger and have met with several anecdotes worth noting [on Elizabeth I, CharlesII, Nell Gwynne, and Arabella Churchill].'William Richard Grahame James GrangerA Biographical History of England ... Adapted to aPrint: Book
1700-1799?I have just excited his [her father?s] envy even to clasping his hands in distraction, by telling him of a man I met with in the middle of Grainger?s Worthies of England...Maria Edgeworth James GrangerA Biographical history of England from Egbert the ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds William BarnesA Bit o’ Sly Coortin’Unknown
1600-1699'Thence to the Temple and sat there till one a-clock, reading at Playford's in Dr Ushers "Body of Divinity" his discourse of the Scripture; which is as much, I believe, a...Samuel Pepys James UssherA body of divinitiePrint: Book
1600-1699'August 26. By reading of Bishop Usher's Body of Divinity, I was convinced of my sinning against the commandments of God in many cases'.Isaac Archer James UssherA Body of DivinitiePrint: Book
1900-1945"Mrs C. Elliott reviewed "A Book of Discovery" by N. B. [sic] Synge'C. Elliott M. B SyngeA Book of DiscoveryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday 1 August. ?A Book of Famous Wits? ? (Walter Jerrold). To see Smith with Monica. He comes home this weekend and seems quite normal and comfortable. I took som...Gerald Moore Walter JerroldA Book of Famous WitsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Student Christian MovementA Book of Prayers for StudentsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read with the greatest pleasure what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made up my mind about his value then, as a writer of re...Joseph Conrad Allan MonkhouseA Bookman's NotesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Ever so many thanks too for the "Life and Miracles" which I have just read for the second time.There is no one but you to render so poignantly the pathetic and desperate...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA Brazilian Mystic, being the Life and Miracles of...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then by water down to Greenwich and thence walked to Woolwich, all the way reading Playfords "Introduction to Musique", wherein are some things very pretty.'Samuel Pepys John PlayfordA brief introduction to the skill of musickPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was not strange in these circumstances [suffering from cardiac complications of rheumatic fever] that I became more and more absorbed in the religious literatur...William Henry Hudson Richard BaxterA Call to the Unconverted to Turn and LivePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heinrich RimiusA Candid Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the...Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Edward Garnett, 28 October 1907: 'You said I might write to you about The Breaking Point. I think it wonderful, and unlike anything I have read before...Edward Morgan Forster Edward GarnettA Censored Play: The Breaking PointPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John HacketA Century of SermonsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday,28th January, ?Peer Gynt? is good stuff. I hope the Beechcroft Players tackle it some time. Though I suppose it has been done too often. In any case Bensham...Gerald Moore Leonard MerrickA Chair on the BoulevardPrint: Book


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