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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [?of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs John RuskinunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs The Oxford Book of English VersePrint: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs HoraceunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read with interest Dostoevsky's "[The] House of the Dead".'Ronald Storrs Fyodor DostoyevskyThe House of the DeadPrint: Book
1900-1945''Finished "[The] Rose and Ring" (how satisfying) and turned over the "Assemblies of al-Hariri", which confirms my old opinion that there is but one book in Arabic and th...Ronald Storrs William Makepeace ThackerayThe Rose and the RingPrint: Book
1900-1945''Finished "[The] Rose and Ring" (how satisfying) and turned over the "Assemblies of al-Hariri", which confirms my old opinion that there is but one book in Arabic and th...Ronald Storrs Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-HaririThe Assemblies of al-HarariPrint: Book
1900-1945''Finished "[The] Rose and Ring" (how satisfying) and turned over the "Assemblies of al-Hariri", which confirms my old opinion that there is but one book in Arabic and th...Ronald Storrs Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence DivisionA Handbook on Mesopotamia Print: Book
1900-1945'Wrote, and read "Persian Gulf Gazetteer", a unique and monumental compilation, and a political history of the Middle East beyond compare.'Ronald Storrs John Gordon LorimerGazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Ar...Print: Book
1900-1945'Up at 7. Most of the day reading Doughty and trying with Gertrude Bell to settle route after Buraida.[...] Continued to glean for a Najd glossary from Doughty's Index ti...Ronald Storrs Charles M. DoughtyTravels in Arabia DesertaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Towards evening the General [George McMunn] lent me "Blackwood's Centenary", in which I read twice, with eager disappointment, Charles Whibley's tribute to H. C. [Storrs...Ronald Storrs Blackwood's Magazine Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Some "Vie Parisiennes" heartened me, and I needed it, for not one line yet to hand from Europe or Cairo — a cruel and needless privation.'Ronald Storrs La Vie ParisiennePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'After arranging for the little gunner captain to go straight through from Fas so as to be in Kuweit [sic] by 8, and testing Marris' verse translation of Horace's "Odes",...Ronald Storrs HoraceThe Odes of Horace, Books i-iv, and the Saecular H...Print: Book
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John ii...Ronald Storrs Henry Seton Merriman (pseud)The SowersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

[...]

7. We then listened to a nu...		Janet Rawlings Manferd KyberThe Frivolous Mouse [Die Leichtsinnige Maus]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

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7. We then listened to a nu...		Janet Rawlings Manfred KyberThe Patented Crocodile [Das patentierte Krokodil]Print: Book
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John ii...Ronald Storrs The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined, as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John i...Ronald Storrs Alfred, Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined, as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John i...Ronald Storrs Algernon Charles Swinburne Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

[...]

7. We then listened to a nu...		Charles E. Stansfield Nancy PriceShadows on the HillsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined, as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John i...Ronald Storrs Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesPrint: Book


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