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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the ...		Frank Knight André MauroisByronPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the ...		Knox Taylor André MauroisHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 4th September 1943 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
[...] 		Howard Smith André MauroisDisraeli: a picture of the Victorian agePrint: Book
1900-1945'The books you sent me lasted beautifully. I read the two Lucases (which I loved) and the Hutchinson (mediocre) in the train and am now deep in "Ariel" which is delightfu...Gertrude Bell André MauroisAriel: ou La Vie de ShelleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'At Radlett over the week-end. Read some of Maurois' The Fall of France. I remember poor Maurois making his way to England and giving that last despairing broadcast. H...Vere Hodgson André MauroisThe Battle of FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols...Sarah Harriet Burney Andre MorelletMemoiresPrint: Book
1900-1945'Forgive me for the delay in thanking you for the volume you were so kind to as to send me. How well done, well conceived, well said! Your "Ariane" is easily the most cha...Joseph Conrad André RuytersLe Mauvais RichePrint: Book
1800-1849'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German Empire," I take the liberty of sending them to you [....G.E. Lynch Cotton Andre-Guillaume Contant-d'OrvilleLes Anecdotes GermaniquesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four e...John Ruskin Andrea AlciatiEmblemsPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Since I wrote to you I have read Dr Bell's Book upon Education ... it is a most interesting work and entitles him to the fervent ...William Wordsworth Andrew BellExperiment in Education made at the Asylum of Madr...Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]: two ms notes, one opp. to: "Joannes Marshall scripsit hunc librum./ Incepi scribere hunc librum duodecimo die Aprilis 1729. Finivi librum nonodecimo die Jun...David Marshall Andrew Birnie of SalineA compend or abreviat of the most important ordina...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have this Moment put into my Hand a Poem concerning the Geranium Flower; tis not very long, and tis I think exceedingly Ingenious: but so obscene I will not pollute my...Hester Lynch Thrale Andrew Erskine[a poem on a Geranium]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]: a drawing on a blank page at end of text relates to the topic. It is an unflattering portrait of a cleric and titled 'Brother Carey' [ie William Carey orien...John Drummond Erskine Andrew FullerAn apology for the late Christian missions to Indi...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Andrew FullerThe Calvinistic and Socinian Systems Examined and ...Print: Book
1850-1899Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath - with much virtuous indignation about 'Maga's' perso...Margaret Oliphant Andrew LangLife of LockhartPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: MS chapters of a book
1850-1899'Your kind present of Andrew Lang's two volumes has just reached me, and from what I have gleaned by a glimpse of the plates wh. I have opened, I have an intellectual tre...S.P. Oliver Andrew LangLife, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcot...Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two or three respects so able) Joan of Arc, or Maid of F...Henry James Andrew LangThe Maid of France, being the Story of the Life an...Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two or three respects so able) Joan of Arc, or Maid of F...Henry James Andrew Langcompendium of English literaturePrint: Book
1850-1899?You can tell Lang this. I heard from him, and will answer soon.?Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew LangletterManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'In spite of my vague memories of the South African campaigns, Spion Kop and Magersfontein were hardly more real to me than the battles between giants and mortals in the ...Vera Brittain Andrew LangAndrew Lang's Fairy BooksPrint: Book


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