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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945I finished The Hotel in Brooks's — not a good novel, although Eddy recommends it.James Lees-Milne Elizabeth BowenThe HotelPrint: Book
1900-1945'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly d...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettTruth's Welcome HomePrint: proof
1900-1945'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly d...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettA Week in ParisManuscript: typescript
1900-1945'Many thanks for the book. I read the sketch of De la R[ochefoucauld] psychology with great delight.'Joseph Conrad Edmund GosseThree French Moralists and the Gallantry of FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'I started reading my inscribed copy [of "Mr Perrin and Mr Traill"] straight away. How well (and freshly) all this is done!' [Hence follow four more lines of appreciative...Joseph Conrad Hugh WalpoleMr Perrin and Mr Traill: A Tragi-Comedy.Print: Book
1900-1945'I will confess at once that I have read the book ["The Reconnaissance"] once only, and that of course is not enough;[...].The subject in itself is certainly a very diffi...Joseph Conrad Theodore James Gordon GardinerThe ReconnaissancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Your R.A.F. paper is very good [...].'Joseph Conrad Edric Cecil Mornington Roberts Unknown
1900-1945'As to "The Hist[ory] of the British Army" it is "tout bonnement admirable!". No other phrase can do justice to it.' Joseph Conrad John William FortescueHistory of the British Army: Extracts from British...Print: Book
1900-1945'That vol[ume]["Colour Studies in Paris"] is full of charm and contains many pages of rare distinction and luminous like pearls[...].'Joseph Conrad Arthur SymonsColour Studies in ParisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks very much for your sympathetic book. It is vividly interesting (I am on p.70) and am flattered to think that its writer, who knows so much of human affairs, think...Joseph Conrad unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945James Chesterton Bradley to Robert Keating Smith, 3 May 1902:

'A short paper of yours in "The Tatler" of April 2nd brought before me my old friend James W[il...		James Chesterton Bradley Robert Keating Smith'A Well Known Character in Fiction'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before, for the very curious pamphlet containing Swinburne's sweet little joke. I enjoyed both the verse and the prose (especially the prose)...Joseph Conrad Algernon SwinburneA Letter to Ralph Waldo EmersonPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Thank you for your green book which I have read with the greatest of interest.'Joseph Conrad Gold Coast Blue BookPrint: Book
1900-1945'I didn't thank you for the book ["Papa's War and Other Satires" ] by letter because I knew I was coming to town at once. You know my opinion of all the pieces composing ...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettPapa's War and Other SatiresPrint: Book
1900-1945'I write to thank you for the book [...]. I have already seen most of the papers composing your new vol. ["Old Junk"] and I have appreciated their graphic power, persona...Joseph Conrad Henry Major TomlinsonOld JunkPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the inscribed copy. [...]. On the 28th May I finished correcting the last pages of "Rescue" [...]. The same evening I picked up "Sri Ram" as I limped to ...Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerSiri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life Print: Book
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before for the book ["Siri Ram"] which I read directly it reached my hands.'Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerSiri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life Print: Book
1900-1945'Ever so many thanks for copy of "[The] Sepoy". Everything you write is a matter of most sympathetic interest to me; and in the case of this book I must say I enjoyed th...Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerThe SepoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The whole household went to bed early [...] then with a mind refreshed and made receptive [...] I sat down to read your two articles — and it was a delightful (c'est le ...Joseph Conrad Sidney ColvinSome Personal RecollectionsManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'The justness of all these things said in "Another Sheaf" is what strikes one most.'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyAnother SheafPrint: Book


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