√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 February 1821:'"... rode, &c. -- visited -- wrote nothing -- read Roman History.' George Gordon Lord Byron Roman history Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1821: 'I have just read in an Italian paper "That Ld. B. has a tragedy coming out" &c. &c ... I do reiterate -- and desire that every thi... George Gordon Lord Byron Italian newspaper Print : NewspaperUnknown1800-1849 In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on William Turner, Journal of a Tour in the Levant (and ... George Gordon Lord Byron William Turner Journal of a Tour in the Levant Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out Waverley and the Guy M[annering] -- and the Antiqua... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott [various novels] Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of "Endymion" in the Quarterly. It was severe. -- but surely not so sev... George Gordon Lord Byron John Wilson Croker review of John Keats, Endymion Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley The Cenci Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure. I receive yo... George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Hodgson Saeculo Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live in Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the "Ave Maria", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... dined, and turned over yr. notes.' George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Hodgson Notes to (?) Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines Occ... Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one in the papers -- as secondary to Burdett and Canning.... George Gordon Lord Byron Douglas Kinnaird letter (ie article?) Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1821: 'I have just read "John Bull's letter" -- it is diabolically well written -- & full of fun and ferocity' [goes on to speculate as to w... George Gordon Lord Byron J. G. Lockhart John Bull's Letter to Lord Byron Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply N. N. A. ... She simply says that she is dying, and... George Gordon Lord Byron [N. N. A.] anon [private letter] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 6 July 1821: 'At the particular request of the Countess G[uiccioli] I have promised not to continue Don Juan ... She had read the two first [cantos]... Countess Teresa Guiccioli George Gordon Lord Byron Don Juan (Cantos I and II) Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1821: 'I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats ...' George Gordon Lord Byron John Wilson Croker Adverse review of John Keats, Endymion Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 23 August 1821, on sources for descriptions in Don Juan Canto III: 'much of the description of the furniture in Canto 3d. is taken from Tully's Trip... George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Tully Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at the Court o... Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) relating to Bowles-Pope controversy. George Gordon Lord Byron Octavius Gilchrist pamphlets Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822: 'I have not seen the thing you mention [John Watkins, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron] ... nor h... George Gordon Lord Byron Advertisement for [John Watkins], Memoirs of the L... Print : Advertisement1800-1849 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in 1812 at Lord Grenville's -- when Ld. Grey and he re... Charles 2nd Earl Grey unknown Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second ... Manuscript : LetterUnknown1800-1849 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in 1812 at Lord Grenville's -- when Ld. Grey and he re... William Wyndham Lord Grenville unknown Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second ... Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ever read was in 1806-07.' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [reviews] Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over again.' George Gordon Lord Byron Henry Fielding unknown Print : Book
