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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, 31 May 1768:] 'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, that I may return it to her? if not, when you write, pr...Catherine Talbot Gautier de Costes de la CalprenèdePharamond; or the History of FrancePrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:] 'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, that I may return it to her? if not, when you write, pr...Catherine Talbot Rene Aubert de VertotHistoire des Chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de...Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 July 1768, following expressions of concern over illness of Talbot's stepfather Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury:] 'Si...anon report of illness of Archbishop of CanterburyPrint: Newspaper
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[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 April 1763:] 'I am rather scandalized that you should even ask how I like the Malincolia d'Alcindo, which is beautiful in the ...Elizabeth Carter Carlo MaggiMalincolia d'AlicinoPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:] 'Be so good as to tell Mrs Handcock that I do like the "Vicar of Wakefield," and likewise that I do not [...] Ind...Elizabeth Carter Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:] 'I thank you for your transcript from Fairfax [translator of Torquato Tasso], which is very pretty.'Elizabeth Carter Edward Fairfax Manuscript: Unknown, Transcribed by Elizabeth Vesey.
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:] 'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walpole's book. There is always some degree of entertain...Elizabeth Carter Horace Walpole?Royal and Noble AuthorsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:] 'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walpole's book. There is always some degree of entertain...Elizabeth Carter Horace WalpoleThe Castle of OtrantoPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 28 July 1769:] 'I only saw the Cambridge Ode in a newspaper [...] I thought there were some fine stanzas in it: but in general it...Elizabeth Carter Thomas Gray?Ode for MusicPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 13 November 1769:] 'My sister and all her family are with me at present, among the rest the little prattling boy who breakfasted ...anon  Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 3 December 1769:] ''If the text of the sermon you mention is [italics]It is well[end italics], &c. I have read it and thought it ...Elizabeth Carter Sermon on text 'It is well...'Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:] 'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it with some exception; many, indeed most of them, are ...Elizabeth Carter ?Thomas SherlockSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:] 'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it with some exception; many, indeed most of them, are ...Elizabeth Carter Thomas SeckerSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:] 'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, except a little volume of very pretty Essays by Miss Aiki...Elizabeth Carter Anna Laetitia AikinEssays [?on Various Subjects]Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:] 'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, except a little volume of very pretty Essays by Miss Aiki...Elizabeth Carter Jacob BryantA New System, or, an Analysis of Ancient Mythology...Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 July 1774:] 'Lord Chesterfield's Letters are, I think, the most complete system of French morality that ever disgraced the Eng...Elizabeth Carter Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to His SonPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 31 May 1776:] 'As you are acquainted with all possible authors, pray be so good as to tell me who is the writer of a Letter to a ...Elizabeth Carter A Letter to a Young Nobleman Setting out on his Tr...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 2 October 1777:] 'Every body seems very impatient for important news from America; for my own part, I have so little hope of any ...Elizabeth Carter report of Burgoyne's actions in American War of In...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 25 July 1779:] 'I do not wonder you were struck by Mrs Barbauld's Hymns. They are all excellent, but there are some passages amaz...Elizabeth Carter Anna Laetitia BarbauldHymnsUnknown


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