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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][description of the Court of Haiti]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa Clinton [description of Court of Haiti]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa Clinton Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa, Lady Holroyd [unknown][unknown - French? -text featuring travels in Amer...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][unknown - French? -text featuring travels in amer...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very much interested in Morley's ''Life of Rousseau'' ... Morley does not gloss over any of his crimes or odiousness.'Emma Darwin John MorleyRousseauPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very much obliged to you for letting me see Miss Kavanagh's new work. I will take great care of it and return it before long.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Julia Kavanagh[possibly] French Women of LettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very much obliged to you for the books - I still keep the O'Hara Tales, not having quite finished them - I certainly exonerate the Anglo Irish from the charge of im...Mary Shelley John BanimTales by the O'Hara FamilyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very much obliged to you indeed for so kindly and so speedily sending me the books I asked for, and which gave great delight to my daughter, when they arrived yeste...Margaret Emily ('Meta') Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am very much obliged to you, for your transcriptions and observations from Pliny; as you say, I should never find time to read the book. What stores of knowledge do I ...Samuel Richardson Pliny the Elder [observations and transcriptions from work]Manuscript: Unknown, transcriptions by Susanna Highmore
1900-1945'I am very touched by all the tributes in your New Year's letter, & enormously pleased with The Last Post. I don't believe you have any last idea how much I admire your g...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ford Madox FordLast Post, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very very much obliged to you for sending us the Homeward Mail. We read it from end to end; title page, & printer's name'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Homeward Mail, ThePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1600-1699'I am very well pleased this night with reading a poem I brought home with me last night from Westminster hall, of Driden's upon the present war - a very good poem.'Samuel Pepys John DrydenAnnus Mirabilis: the year of wonders, 1666; an his...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I am wading through Emerson, as I really wanted to know what transcendentalism means, and I think that it is that intuition is before reason (or facts). It certainly doe...Emma Darwin Ralph Waldo EmersonUnknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am wanted at battalion headquarters. A review of my poems has been printed in the “Times Literary Supplement” (a kind review it was, if ever there was one!), and my Co...Edmund Blunden Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am well into ?Dodsworth? and am liking it. It is very interesting though I find that Lewis has rather a ?green?, a youthful way of talking about Europe which makes the...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am well off for books, for I have a second in hand there almost more interesting, and that is Mungo Park's travels, which I never read before.'Charles Darwin Mungo ParkThe Life and Travels of Mungo Park
1900-1945'I am wholly delighted with your "R.[iceyman] S.[teps]. Wholly. You will give me credit for not having missed any special gems but it is the whole achievement as I went f...Joseph Conrad Enoch Arnold BennettRiceyman StepsPrint: Book


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