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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I am sending back the pamphlet of the rules of the [National] Club. It is very interesting but but it occurs to me, my dear Gardiner [...] I cannot very well belong to t...Joseph Conrad [Rule Book of the National Club]Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'I am sending by the same post as this letter, the book on Yorkshire, you were so very kind as to lend me. I cannot tell you how much use it has been to me; my paper mark...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [book on Yorkshire]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am sending today the "Grand Elixir" to London.[...] That the story is clever, that the writing is in many respects admirable there can be no doubt.' Hence follow 12 li...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington Dawson Grand Elixir (The Green Moustache)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I am sending you a copy of the [underlined] Saturday Review [end underlining] with an article of mine & your Lavigne picture.'Ford Madox Ford [n/a]Saturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am sending you a cutting out of the "Daily Telegraph" of Aug 30th containing the London Gazette wherein I am transferred to a Service Battalion and taken off probation...Bernard Wilfrid Long Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I am sending you a play of Sudermann's, "Heimat", which I have just read and which I must say I thought tremendous. I fancy it will suit Mr Hyde's taste and I wonder if ...Gertrude Bell Hermann SudermannHeimatPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am sending you with my love a pretty edition of "Emaux et Camées" [of Théophile Gautier]. I don't think you have anything on your shelves of the bon poète. I haven't ...Joseph Conrad Théophile GautierEmaux et CaméesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am sitting in my dug-out this evening eagerly discussing over a mug of tea poets and poems with a brother officer, when he is called away about some ammunition for his...Douglas Herbert Bell unknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am so fatigued with poring over a German book, I scarcely can collect my thoughts or even spell English words.'Mary Wollstonecraft [probably] Christian Gotthilf Salzmann[probably] Moralisches ElementarbuchPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am so glad thou has been reading some works on Geology. 'Geological Sketches' was the first I ever read; it is an excellent preliminary work, and interested me so mu...Eliza Ellis Maria HackGeological Sketches and Glimpses of the ancient Ea...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am so glad you liked 'Ruth'. I was so anxious about her, and took so much pains over writing it, that I lost my own power of judging, and could not tell whether I had ...R. Monckton Milnes Elizabeth GaskellRuthPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am so much enjoying [italics] The Mill on the Floss [end italics] but would so much like to earn the right to read it.'Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am so sorry to hear you have trouble too; fortunately there is no need to bother about Paris, things having been comfortably arranged without. And indeed F. is too unw...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I am so very sorry to hear of the terrible disaster which has once more overtaken the neighbourhood. I read about it yesterday in the Daily Sketch. I do hope there...John Lawton Daily SketchPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'I am sorry for poor Hewlett - Betty Delane read his sermons with great pleasure...'Betty Delane John Hewlett[sermons]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appreciation — and for the brochure on the religious ele...Joseph Conrad Roman DyboskiModern Polish Literature: a course of lectures del...Print: Book
1900-1945'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appreciation — and for the brochure on the religious ele...Joseph Conrad Roman DyboskiPeriods of Polish Literary History: Being the Ilch...Print: Book
1900-1945'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appreciation — and for the brochure on the religious ele...Joseph Conrad Roman Dyboski?The Religious Element in Polish National LifePrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'I am sorry I put in an, apparently, unlucky form what I had to say about the two pieces of prose you sent me.'Joseph Conrad Liam O'FlahertyThe Cow's DeathPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am sorry to mention that [Lord Byron's] last poem upon "The Decadence of Bonaparte", is worthy neither his pen nor his muse'.Princess Caroline Princess of Wales George Gordon, Lord Byron'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte'Unknown


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