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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [1758] following stay in London with Carter:] 'I have looked in Dodsley, to see if any events had happened between your leaving t...Catherine Talbot Robert DodsleyThe Ladies' Memorandum BookPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [1758]:] '"Henrietta" has been useful to us here, but there are many things in it that I dislike, and that tally with my opinion ...Catherine Talbot and familyCharlotte LennoxHenriettaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 August 1761:] 'I am ashamed to say I have not yet sent La Mort d'Abel to Mrs Donnelan; but the truth is, I began reading it to...Catherine Talbot Salomon GessnerLa Mort d'AbelPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 November 1759:] 'I thank you for the Barrow, and in idle hours, for the French plays.'Catherine Talbot 'French plays'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:] 'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present is a very pretty treatise, "sur la gaiete," which th...Catherine Talbot treatise 'sur la gaiete'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:] 'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present is a very pretty treatise, "sur la gaiete," which th...Catherine Talbot John JortinLife of ErasmusPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:] 'Thank my stars, I have torn it this minute all to bits! What? Why a reflection upon the Vision, but that was...Catherine Talbot George Lord LytteltonThe VisionPrint: Unknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:] 'Yesterday evening we were entertained by one of the noblest storms I ever enjoyed, and truly this was not en...Catherine Talbot Edward Young Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:] 'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that you may be fit to translate for us forty-four Ass...Catherine Talbot Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-HaririSix assemblies; or, ingenious conversations of lea...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:] 'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with pleasure, and though the objection you made is just, it ...Catherine Talbot ?Thomas Simon ?Gueullette?Peruvian Tales (vol 3)Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:] 'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with pleasure, and though the objection you made is just, it ...Catherine Talbot Charles MorrellThe Tales of the GeniiPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:] 'Have you seen the reflections, maxims, and characters moral and satirical? Amusing, I think, and not bad; writ ...Catherine Talbot Fulke GrevilleReflections, maxims, and characters, moral, critic...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:] 'I have been running about sadly since I wrote to you last, once at Oxford, twice at Richmond with Lady Grey, wh...anon Thomas NewtonDissertations on the Prophecies, Which Have Remark...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:] 'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read the death of Adam. It is extremely fine, but so p...Catherine Talbot Carlo Maggi'the Death of Adam'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:] 'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read the death of Adam. It is extremely fine, but so p...Catherine Talbot and familyLady Mary Wortley MontaguTurkish Embassy LettersPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury, and his household's change of residence:] ...Catherine Talbot Ben Jonson Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury, and his household's change of residence:] ...Catherine Talbot Pierre de MarivauxLe Spectateur FrancoisPrint: Unknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 October 1768, during a visit to the Cornwall family:] ''We found them here reading Mosheim. They are in the second volume, wh...Elizabeth Talbot and Cornwall familyJohann Lorenz von Mosheim?An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern, fr...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 April 1760:] 'As you was, upon the whole, I believe, very determined to go into the country [following visit to Talbot 'on Tu...Catherine Talbot Roger BoyleParthenissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 August 1764:] 'Pray has Mrs M. got one of Mr Walpole's Memoirs of Lord Herbert [of Cherbury]? So few copies are dispersed, th...Catherine Talbot Horace WalpoleMemoirs of Lord Herbert of CherburyPrint: Book


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