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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the "City of Sunshine", entirely about Indian (not Anglo-Indian) life, which gives a very fine picture ...Margaret Oliphant Alexander AllardyceCity of SunshinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'George Eliot [pseud] Alexander Bain[on nervous mechanism]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.George Eliot [pseud] Alexander Bain (?)unknownPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'There is an old English and Latin book of poems by Barclay, called "The Ship of Fools"; at the end of which are a number of [italics] Eglogues [end italics]; so he write...Samuel Johnson Alexander BarclayShip of Fools, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849My uncle has got the life of Doctor Beattie from the library [Halifax Subscription library?], I have not had time to read much of it yet, but I think he must have been ...Samuel Lister Alexander BowerAn Account of the Life of James BeattiePrint: Book
1850-1899'Andrews seems very pleasant and we had a fierce forenoon of it over meteorology. He has Bookan (as he calls him)...'Robert Louis Stevenson Alexander BuchanHandy Book of Meteorology [?]Print: Book
1800-1849'I was truly sorry and at the same time tickled to observe the abrupt conclusion of your letter. The thunder of Jack's snoring is not unknown to me; but poor fellow! yo...Thomas Carlyle Alexander CarlyleLetter (date unknown)Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'My dear Alick, No piece of news that I have heard for a long time has given me more satisfaction than the intelligence contained in your letter of yesterday. For severa...Thomas Carlyle Alexander CarlyleLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alexander ChalmersThe Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cow...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alexander ChalmersThe Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cow...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alexander ChalmersThe Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cow...Print: Book
1700-1799'He was covered with a fine cloth of a manufacture totally new to us; it was tied on exactly as represented in Mr. Dalrymple's book, p. 63; his hair was also tied in a kn...Joseph Banks Alexander DalrympleAn Account of the Discoveries made in the South Pa...Print: Book
1600-1699'walked to see Sir W. Penn at Deptford, reading by the way a most ridiculous play, a new one call[ed] "The Politician cheated".'Samuel Pepys Alexander GreenThe Politician cheatedPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 1 February 1849:

'There are two volumes in the first parcel [sent on loan by Williams] which, having seen,...		Charlotte Brontë Alexander HarrisA Converted Atheist's Testimony to the Truth of Ch...Print: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 5 April 1849:

'The Cornhill books are still our welcome and congenial resource while Anne [sister, in terminal decline] i...		Charlotte Bronte and familyAlexander HarrisThe Emigrant FamilyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Herzen's "La Condizione fisica della Coscienza", sent to me at my request, because it criticizes my darling's standpoint'.George Eliot [pseud] Alexander HerzenLa Condizione fisica della CoscienzaPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on "Scottish Vernacular Literature" to find out what he had to say by way of comment on...William Soutar Alexander HumeThe Day EstivallPrint: Book
1800-1849My library is one of my greatest pleasures after a good ramble in the fields. I assure you I am very much pleased with the Georgical Essays, I have read a little of the f...Anne Lister Alexander HunterGeorgical EssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have your List of Writings etc: a copy of it was lent to me by Mr Bain the bookseller.'Robert Louis Stevenson Alexander IrelandList of the writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Did I ever tell you with how great an interest I had read your reminiscences of Carlyle and Mrs C.?'Robert Louis Stevenson Alexander IrelandunknownUnknown


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