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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'The Cape papers give extracts from the Van Diemen's Land papers, by which I find that O'Brien, Meagher, O'Donoghue, and MacManus, in the "Swift", and Martin and O'Dohert...John Mitchel [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have seen some English papers: this Cape affair has caused wonderful excitement and indignation: a horrid insult has been offered to the supreme Majesty of England - n...John Mitchel [n/a]The Times [and other English newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have got the Cape newspapers, with their advertising columns full of "the Dinner", "the Illuminations", in large capitals. Here are my last extracts from the South Afr...John Mitchel [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Some Hobart Town newspapers have come on board. O'Brien is still in very close confinement on an island off the east coast, called Maria Island, a rugged and desolate te...John Mitchel [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Some Irish newspapers. I can hardly bear to look into them. But John Knox [John Martin] diligently scans them, with many wry faces, and sometimes tells me part of the ne...John Martin [n/a][Irish newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of the treatment used towards me; and particularly the "...John Mitchel [n/a]Colonial TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Yesterday I saw in one of the Van Diemen's Land papers, an extract from some London periodical, in which, as usual, great credit is given to the "Government" for their i...John Mitchel [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'The evening was very stupid as both Betsey and Justine did not talk one being asleep and the other busily employed reading the bible' [according to Harriet Wynne]Justina Wynne [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899Sunday 18 October: 'we had service on the poop the Shoole master held it then was a box on board with books ther was bibles and prayer books and hyme books so it was ope...Maria Steley [n/a][Bible or Prayer Books or Hymn Books]Print: Book
1850-1899Monday 26 October 'we are sailing this Morning 9 miles a hour if we go on at that rate we shall soone be ther i Don't care how soon, we get ther A child died today it is...anon [n/a][funeral service]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read in the "Gibraltar Chronicle" that Adml. Villeneuve was assassinated at Rennes on the 23rd of April, what a horrid tyrant must Bonaparte be if he had anything to d...Thomas Fremantle [n/a]Gibraltar ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Then I became seized with a desire to know something about religion, and I read the commandments over and over again, as well as those portions of the Bible which I coul...Mark Jeffrey [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went off to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Davitt meets with a fellow prisoner released on ticket-of-leave: '"I promised you", he exclaimed upon meeting me, "that I would live 'on the square' in future, and here ...Michael Davitt [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspaper the "Scotsman" has reached the third number. I hav...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]The ScotsmanPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Quarterly" reviews. In the latter, among a great deal o...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Quarterly" reviews. In the latter, among a great deal o...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'We get a "Dumfries Courier" here amongst us. Our third Number reached us a few days ago. It seems M'Darmaid [M'Diarmid] is become sole Editor; - it is not the opinion of...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Dumfries CourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerabl...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]The ScotsmanPrint: Newspaper


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