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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
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue, 16th December 1941
F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
Before beginning our meeting the Chairman referred to the loss the Club h...		Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks[Note/minutes of a visit made by members of the XI...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945'[in journal entry] from E.O. S[iepmann]'s notebook Free spirit liable to possession or obsession... Debauchery is the most frozen isolation to which man can condemn hi...Antonia White Eric Siepmann[notebook]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'he was not altogether unprepared as a periodical writer; for I have in my possession a small duodecimo volume, in which he has written, in the form of Mr Locke's "Common...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[notes collected for periodical articles]Print: UnknownManuscript: duodecimo book
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est proprie communia dicere.[end italics]' Mr. Wilkes accord...John Wilkes James Boswell[notes of conversation between Wilkes and Dr Johns...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Some notes on the subject of Christian Science by E.A. Smith were read & C.E. Stansfield described some of the literature on the subject. The Secretary read a letter of...Elizabeth Ann Smith[notes on Christian Science]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Notes on Colossians'Sarah Good [Anon] [Anon][Notes on Colossians]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R....		Muriel Stevens [Un-named friend of Muriel Stevens] [Notes on Deptford and its river scenes]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, L[eighton]. P[ark].: 18. i. 33.
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved...		Edgar Castle George Burrow[Notes on the literature of 1580 - 1590]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the sacred volumes in the original languages; with what...Samuel Johnson Zachariah Mudge[notes on the Psalms]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'[letter from Johnson to Thomas Astle] Your notes on Alfred appear to me very judicious and accurate, but they are too few. Many things familiar to you, are unknown to me...Samuel Johnson Thomas Astle[notes on the will of King Alfred]Print: Book
1850-1899'Notes on Thessalonians'Sarah Good [Anon] [Anon][Notes on Thessalonians]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last meeting were read ...		George Goyder George Goyder[notes or script for a lecture on William Blake, i...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Yesterday was a culmination of all mischief, finding I had lost (temporarily, may the Fates and Fors'es grant) Sir Walter Scott's Pen! Comforted a little by reading my o...John Ruskin John Ruskin[notes]Manuscript: Codex
1600-1699'Up, and I did, by a little note which I flung to Deb, advise her that I did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, and so she might govern herself ... The girl read, a...Deborah Willet Samuel Pepys[note]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'One day as I was sitting in my Shop, a Woman who though very badly drest, had a Dignity in her Air which distinguish'd her from the Vulgar, stood reading the paper I had...Laetitia Pilkington[notice in her shop window]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'I say Colvin, your Titian is no end, and has pleased my mother as much as me: no end, also, is your description of that incarnate devil Maclise one of the wickedest inca...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin[Notices on Titian and Daniel Maclise]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Rutba is the palace planted in the wilderness when Aladdin's uncle rubbed the lamp; how else can it have got there? It is 200 empty miles from anywhere. It has bed...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][notices posted on walls]Manuscript: Sheet, notices on walls
1800-1849'On looking in at the shop window, which was well stocked and elegant, we perceived a notice announcing that a Riblic dinner was to take place at the Swan Hotel, July 1st...John Cole [n/a][notice]Print: Advertisement, Poster, Notice on shop window
1850-1899'My father took me to see them sold up. He must have been off work again, foundry work was little better than casual labour then. The auctioneer's man had taken the two h...Joseph Stamper [unknown][notice]Manuscript: Graffito
1850-1899'Whilst waiting my turn and having observed all these things, I started to spell out a notice above the mirror, I could read enough. It said "Haircut: Men 3d., Boys 2d., ...Joseph Stamper [unknown][notice]Print: Advertisement, Poster


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