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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-18493 pp of ms at the end of v.1 appear to be brief notes abstracted from details in the text. Each page is ruled and divided into 3 columns headed, 'Substance', 'Symptoms', ...Dr Sibbald Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure OrfilaA general system of toxicology, or, a treatise on ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Kidd's Geological Essay and an account of 10 years residence in Tripoli. Kidd's a very bad embarresed [sic] style. Account of Tripoli; amusing enough. [Lists other ...Benjamin Newton John KiddA Geological essay on the Imperfect EvidencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Prayer meeting 9 am. Litany & Sermon 10 am. Child of Boranzina died at 1 pm. Read "A God of Deliverance" by Saunders. It filled my eyes with tears & humbled me gre...Thomas Buchanan Reginald Westgate Alexander R. SaundersA God of DeliverancesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have sent you the "Gossip Story" to review, as you wish to read it, but I would thank you if you would do it immediately, because Johnson is in want of materials for t...Mary Wollstonecraft Jane WestA Gossip's StoryPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working man. It sets him apart. He isn't such a toiler if he...Lennox Kerr William CobbettA Grammar of the English Language in a Series of L...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1839: 'At painful times, when composition is impossible & reading not [italics]enough[end italics], grammars & dict...Elizabeth Barrett Samuel LeeA Grammar of the Hebrew LanguagePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House 31st May 1941
R. D. L. Moore in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

[...]		Knox Taylor Robert CecilA Great Experiment: An autobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'About 10.30 p.m. I took her for some refreshment, we talked of books, she said she was reading "A Guide to Philosophy", I made some laudatory remarks about "Eyeless in G... [unknown]A Guide to philosophyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Mrs Gascoyne's [sic] book on Burmah, Kipling and Murray and wrote letters. Very steamy day. Read Mrs Cotes' "Delightful Americans" after dinner and thought it only ...Gertrude Bell John Murray (ed.)A Handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Cey...Print: Book
1900-1945Transcribed by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944): 'On Hydon's top there is a cup And in that cup there is a drop Take up the cup and drink the drop And p...Edward Morgan Forster A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire and...Print: Book
1800-1849'Dear Sir, Before saying any thing on the subject of my own prospects I wish to notice two trifling inaccuracies in the 'Handbook' in compliance with the invitation there...William Gladstone various A Handbook for Travellers on the ContinentPrint: Book
1900-1945'Jessie's cooking book is written and quite ready and corrected with several Remarks, 130 recipes and Prefaces by yours truly-all wanting to be retyped nice and clean.[.....Joseph Conrad Jessie ConradA Handbook of Cookery for a Small House Manuscript: Sheet, final typescript and possibly earlier versions as well
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
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Fanshawe, 'A Happy Life out of Martial'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Richard FanshaweA Happy Life out of MartialPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by t...Oscar Wilde Honore de BalzacA Harlot High and LowPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]A Harmonie upon the Three EvangelistsPrint: Book
1900-1945'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life in Sarawak"] as soon as I ought to have done. Upon ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA HatchmentPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ... it has filled me with communicable rapture ... I re...Henry James William Dean HowellsA Hazard of New Fortunes vol 1Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ... it has filled me with communicable rapture ... I re...Henry James William Dean HowellsA Hazard of New Fortunes vol 2Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Henry Vane the YoungerA Healing Question Propounded and ResolvedPrint: Book


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