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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	'I am sorry to miss making the acquaintance of Mr Becke. Strangely enough I have been, only the other day, reading again his "Reef and Palm". Apart from the great interes...	Joseph Conrad	George Lewis (Louis) Becke	By Reef and Palm	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am sorry to say Sir E. [Eldon Gorst, British Agent and Consul General] has been rather bad this last week: a touch of the sun it is thought. I play the piano to him of...	Ronald Storrs	Robert Browning	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am sorry to say Sir E. [Eldon Gorst, British Agent and Consul General] has been rather bad this last week: a touch of the sun it is thought. I play the piano to him of...	Ronald Storrs	Edward Gibbon	?The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled me so excessively that I thought it adviseable to l...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Stella	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled me so excessively that I thought it adviseable to l...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Clavigo, a Tragedy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am still ... doing a pleasanter spell of work over the Waverley novels.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walter Scott	Waverley novels	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am struggling with the Brothers Karamazov, but do not find myself at home with any of the characters. Must read something about Dostoevsky.'	Vere Hodgson	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Brothers Karamazov	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am surprised to find that though suspicious of surrealist dogma I like some of their work, notably and unexpectedly [Andre] Bretons's [italics] Nadja [end italics]. At...	Antonia White	Andre Breton	Nadja	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am tempted by an Essay of Lady Verney's to read ''Millman's History of the Jews''.'	Emma Darwin	Frances Parthenope, Lady Verney	Unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I am to act Orsino (the Duke) in "Twelfth Night" at the Jenkins’. I could not resist that; it is such a delightful part; and I got them to put off my rehearsals to the l...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Shakespeare	Twelfth Night, Or What You Will.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am truly obliged by your kindness in sendng me the last novel of Walter Scott. It would be profanation to call him Mr Walter Scott. I should as soon say Mr Shakespeare...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Bride of Lammermoor	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustive study of France ? something fundamental I mean. ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	unknown	Life of Turgot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustive study of France ? something fundamental I mean. ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Albert Guerard	French Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle ...	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I am very charmed, my dear Mr Edwards, with your sweet Story of a Second Pamela. Had I drawn mine from the very Life, I should have made a much more perfect Piece of my ...	Samuel Richardson	Thomas Edwards	[letter relating story of a real life 'Pamela']	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'I am very curious to see Mrs Montagu's catalogue of duties: so take care that you do not light your pipe with the letter. I have heard from the "noble Lady" again, and ...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Mrs Montagu	Letter dated 13 June	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'I am very deep in Lord Stowell's "Reports", and if it were wartime I should officiate as Judge of the Admiralty Court. It was a fine business to make a public law for al...	Sydney Smith	William, Baron Stowell Scott	[reports of cases in the Admiralty Court]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I am very desirous to hear what your Vote is about Walter Scott; I think it excellent, quite as good as any of his novels excepting that in which Claverhouse is introduc...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Heart of Midlothian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am very desirous to read Mrs Trollope's Paris and the Parisians; her Tremordyn Cliff I read with considerable pleasure. She must be an amorous Old Dame; all these matt...	Sydney Smith	Frances Milton Trollope	Tremordyn Cliff	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'I am very fond of Sherlock's Sermons, prefer them to almost any.'	Jane Austen	Thomas Sherlock	Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am very glad to hear that you are getting to like Jason: I agree with you that the whole description of Medea — glorious character — going out by night, and of her s...	Clive Staples Lewis	William Morris	The Life and Death of Jason: A Poem	Print: Book

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