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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the "Memoirs of Mr William Hutton", and Dr S...Thomas Carter William HuttonMemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte...Elizabeth Marsh William JacksonThirty letters on various subjectsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Jackson's (of Exeter) "Four Ages". He inverts the usual order; and promises halycon days, from the improvement of every art and every science, in the golden age to ...Thomas Green William Jackson of ExeterThe four ages; together with essays on various sub...Print: Book
1800-1849'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book with some good sense in it, and not unentertaining; al...Sydney Smith William JacobTravels in the South of SpainPrint: Book
1900-1945"I have read your book with keen interest. I always read you with the pleasure of a literary critic recognising (and envying) mastery in the art of putting things."Leslie Stephen William JamesThe varieties of religious experiencePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 22 November 1867: "I recd. about a fortnight ago -- your letter with the review of Grimm's novel ... I liked your article very much ... It s...Henry James William JamesReview of Herman Grimm, Unuberwundliche MachteManuscript: Letter
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): "I read your Taine and admired, though but imperfectly understood it."Henry James William JamesReview of Hippolyte Taine, "On Intelligence"Print: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 9 April 1873: "Your letter was full of points of great interest. Your criticism on Middlemarch was excellent and I have duly transcribed it...Henry James William James"criticism of Middlemarch"Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 6 February 1891: " ... I blush to say I haven't had freedom of mind or cerebral freshness ... to tackle -- more than dipping in here and the...Henry James William JamesPrinciples of PsychologyPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- the Brute and Human Intellect and the one in Mind ......Henry James William Jamesarticle on "Brute and Human Intellect"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- the Brute and Human Intellect and the one in Mind ......Henry James William JamesarticlePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 1 January 1883, on having received William's farewell letter to their father too late for Henry James Sr to see it before he died: "I went o...Henry James William Jamesletter to Henry James SrManuscript: Letter
1900-1945Henry James to William James, 23 November 1905: 'I can read [italics]you[end italics] with rapture -- having three weeks ago spent three or four days with Manton Marble a...Henry James William James[Unidentified recently published writings]Print: Unknown
1900-1945Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [...] I can't now explain save by the very fact of the...Henry James William JamesPragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinki...Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [...] I can't now explain save by the very fact of the...Henry James William Jamesjournal articles on psychologyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been reading William James on this very point - the worth ...Mary Augusta Ward William James Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memories and Studies, Walter de la Mare's The Return -- sup...Edward Morgan Forster William JamesMemories and StudiesPrint: Book
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1800-1849		[Marginalia]: some pencil marks and marginal ms notes throughout the text. Generally they highlight points of grammar or translation, mostly in English but at least one i...John Drummond Erskine William JonesGrammar of the Persian Language, APrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: substantially annotated throughout usually in the form of marks (| or *) in the text, to highlight points or sections of interest - usually points of trans...John Drummond Erskine William JonesPoeseos Asiaticae commentariorum libri sex, cum ap...Print: Book
1700-1799'wrote a little logic this afternoon and read Jones on the Figurative languages of the Scriptures'Elizabeth Gurney William JonesA course of lectures on the figurative language of...Print: Book


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