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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 read with the greatest pleasure what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made up my mind about his value then, as a writer of re...	Joseph Conrad	Anthony Trollope	Phineas Finn: The Irish Member	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I read Wm S- letter and thought upon it and religion before I got up, I think of and feel religion at times but I do not understand it always'	Elizabeth Gurney	William Savery	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'I read Wood's Isle of Man because I knew nothing of it and he has said little from there being very little to say'.	Benjamin Newton	George Woods	An account of the past and present state of the Is...	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read your “Giotto”; it’s almighty well written, I don’t know how the devil you can write like that.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	"Giotto's Gospel of Labour"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I read your “Grosvenor”; I’ve seen more interesting articles of yours (beg parding!); but it seemed to me very nice in tone, and I think all the fellows should be please...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	"The Grosvenor Gallery"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I read […] all sorts of rubbish a proposof Burns […]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	material about Burns	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I read […] Allan Ramsay […]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Allan Ramsay	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read […] Comines […]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Philippe de Commines	Memoires	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read […] Juvenal des Ursins, etc. [….]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Jean Juvenal des Ursins	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I read […] Martin’s "History of France"[…]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Henri Martin	History of France	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read […] Olivier Basselin […] "On dit qu’il nuit aux yeux; mais seront-ils les maistres? Le vin est guarison De mes maux; J’aime mieux perdre les deux fenest...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Olivier Basselin	A Son Nez	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember out of Italy, among several other papers, the 81st, of...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Guardian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I really wonder at, and am sorry that our tastes differ so much that you do not like Pignotti, though I like him so very much. I have read as far as the beginning of the...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Lorenzo Pignotti	Storia della Toscana sino al principato	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I rec'd a letter and some newspapers from J. P. Prout with a letter enclosed from my wife. I read a good bit from the papers & then wrote this it is now time to go t...	James Bennetts Williams	Anon Anon	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I recalled Ruskin's words in the Preface to "Sesame and Lilies": "Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain point and the heart loses its life for ever."'	Vera Brittain	John Ruskin	Sesame and Lilies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I recd two papers this morning packed up together, so that if news be like wine which improves in the keeping, I am very well off this day[.] It is all new to me. It is ...	Robert Sharp	n/a	[a newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I receive a letter from Brenda, dated September 18th, 1942. She writes: "We are hoping it won't be long now before we have news of your safety"'	Thomas Kitching		[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I receive another letter from Joan, dated June 30th. She had just started the massage course for which the fee was 142 guineas. And she hoped that, when the course was f...	Thomas Kitching		[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I receive another letter from Joan, dated October 13th, 1942, and numbered two. She is full of enthusiasm for her work...'	Thomas Kitching		[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'I receive great light and benefit I trust from reading Gurnall's Christian Armour'	Arabella Davies	William Gurnall	The Christian in Compleat Armour	Print: Book

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