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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 have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait. I did not like his book. I thought it too personal, too sacred for publication, bu...	Margaret Oliphant	R.T. Davison	Life of Archibald Campbell Tait	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have found Voltaire's ''Louis XIV. very pleasant and short, leaving out all the battles. Voltaire seems so impressed with his magnanimity and generosity ... V. seems r...	Emma Darwin	Voltaire	The Age of Lewis XIV	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have found what should interest you dear. A paper in which I had sketched out my life, before I knew you. Here is the exact copy even to spelling.[?]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	Desiderata	Manuscript: Sheet
	1850-1899	'I have found […] a "Courant" which was speedily dismembered and has been read eagerly down to the Theatre Advertisements.'	Robert Louis Stevenson		Le Courant	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I have gone in for a course of George Sand with immense delight and good results to health, sprits and poor bemuddled brains.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Sand	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have got Cape newspapers for the last two months, and have been reading of the proceedings of the various anti-convict associations within that time.'	John Mitchel	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'I have got for you, as you desire, a Turkish love-letter, which I have put in a little box, and ordered the captain of the Smyrniote to deliver it to you with this lette...	Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu	unknown	unknown	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'I have got old Ascham, and read a little of him, when I have done work, every evening.'	Thomas Carlyle	Roger Ascham	?'Toxophilus' and 'The Scholemaster'	Unknown
	1850-1899	'I have got the "Guesses at Truth", & thank you for them darling'.	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Julius Hare	Guesses at Truth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have got the book from Mrs Bell it is Martin Rattler.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	R M Ballantyne	Martin Rattler or a Boy's Adventures in the Forest...	Print: Book
	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
	1800-1849	'I have got the fourth canto to day - It is a glorious morsel!'	James Hogg	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto IV)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have got the plaquette of St. L?ger L?ger?s poems. Very interesting. The St. Catherine?s Press is terrible for misprints!'	Arnold Bennett	Alexis Saint-L?ger L?ger	Eloges	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have got two copies of "Felix Holt" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything satisfactory about it. It leaves an impression on my mi...	Margaret Oliphant	George Eliot	Felix Holt the Radical	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have had a day of open air; only a little modified by Le Capitaine Fracasse before the dining room fire.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Theophile Gautier	Le Capitaine Fracasse	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have had a great literary experience this week. I have discovered yet another author to add to our circle — our very own set: never since I first read "The well at t...	Clive Staples Lewis	George Macdonald	Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold [sic] it has some incongruities and perhaps too much...	James Hogg		Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold [sic] it has some incongruities and perhaps too much...	James Hogg	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto III)	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have had a letter from Mrs Montague and, (which is still more extraordinary) I have answered it. What on earth did you say, to make her so good to me? She could not h...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Mrs Montagu	Letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I have had a pleasant, lazy morning reading old James Grant's Romance of War!. I expect the romance was always under one's own cap and tunic.'	Ernest William Hornung	James Grant	The Romance of War: Or, the Highlanders in Spain	Print: Book

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