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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I hope you do not estimate my mind by Davie Laing's canting and insolent review or by your friend Goldie's lies [Hogg then complains at Boyd's unwillingness to publish "...James Hogg David Laing[review of new edition of 'the Mountain Bard' - Ed...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I hope you got the books and that you wanted them. The Jokai is very extraordinary. I don't feel to be able to judge books in which the young ladies of the house sit in ...Gertrude Bell Mór (Maurus) Jókai unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I hope you have read and admired Doblado. To get a Catholic Priest who would turn King's Evidence is a prodigious piece of good luck, but it may damage the Catholic ques...Sydney Smith Joseph Blanco WhiteDoblado's Letters from SpainPrint: Book
1900-1945'I hope you have read your Times Literary Supplement this week: do you see that the commonwealth of letters is richer by a great new poet? Now let the stars retire for ...Clive Staples Lewis 'An Uncertain Voice'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I hope you like Horner's "Life". It succeeds extremely well here. It is full of all the exorbitant and impracticable views so natural to young men at Edinburgh; but ther...Sydney Smith Leonard HornerMemoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P.Print: Book
1900-1945'I hope you noticed the leader in this week's Literary Supplement — on Edgar Allan Poe? I never heard such affectation and preciosity; the man who thinks the "Raven" ta...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]'Edgar Allan Poe'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I hope, that considering the thickness of the Volumes, and the impossibility of reading any work of Miss Edgeworth's with the carelessness and haste a common Novel may b...Sarah Harriet Burney Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1850-1899'I idle finely. I read Boswell’s "Life of Johnson"[…]' Robert Louis Stevenson James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson.Print: Book
1800-1849'I imagine "Glenarvon" has lost much of its merit in your eyes from not being acquainted with the different persons intended to be portrayed. Many characters are drawn I ...Anne Romilly Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I immediately borrowed and sat down to a second perusal of Marmion. I like the brave villain much for being so wholly divested of sneakiness...'Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottMarmion: a Tale of Flodden FieldPrint: Book
1600-1699'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".'Samuel Pepys Francis Osborne[works]Print: Book
1600-1699'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".'Samuel Pepys Emanuel TesauroPatriarche, sive Christi servatoris genealogia, pe...Print: Book
1800-1849'I inclose you a very curious letter from a cousin german of my own to his son who still remains in this country. It has given me so much amusement that I thought it migh...James Hogg James Laidlaw[Letter from America to his son]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these l...James Hogg William Roscoe[pre-publication comments on Hogg's 'The Hunting o...Manuscript: presumably in MS
1800-1849'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these l...James Hogg Walter Scott[pre-publication comments and marginal notes on Ho...Manuscript: presumably in MS
1800-1849'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these l...James Hogg Walter PatersonLegend of Iona, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I inclose [sic] a review which Lang sent me, presumably his own and presumably from the Daily News.'Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew Lang[review of New Arabian Nights in Daily News]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I infinitely regret to say that having read the 2 vols of "Sinister Street", I don?t think it is permanent work; the beginning & the end are the best.' Arnold Bennett Compton McKenzieSinister StreetPrint: Book
1700-1799'I ingenuously told him [Mr Parkinson], I had no other Fortune than my Pen, and, at his request, shewed him some of my Writings' [Parkinson introduced her to a patron, Si...Mr Parkinson Laetitia Pilkington[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I inspect "The Syonan Times" from May 23rd to 28th: the usual unadulterated propaganda - in such mass and so blatant you would expect it to stultify itself completely. T...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper


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