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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'In the afternoon upon the Quarter-deck, the Doctor told Mr North and me an admirable story called "The Fruitlesse Precaution": an exceeding pretty story and worth my get...Paul ScarronThe Fruitless PrecautionPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the afternoon, at a tennis party at Blair Castle, a bicycle orderly arrives with an urgent telegram for my battalion. Being the senior Cameronian officer present ...James Lochhead Jack [n/a] [n/a][telegram]Manuscript: telegram
1700-1799'In the afternoon, Mrs M & I walked to the quay hotel etc. where we met Mrs Hening of Chichester who was staying in lodgings at Littlehampton. We however found it so cold...Miss PilkingtonRosinaPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the Age of this morning there appeared a short Leading article strongly advocating my being sent Home to see the European Prisons, the writer spoke in very flattering...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Age this morning there was an Article on prison labor & Labor in the Melbourne Gaol particularly, it was evidently well disposed towards me but also it was eviden...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Argus of this morning a Leading Article appeared in which "my taking an erroneous view of the meaning of a previous article" was "readily excused" "in considerati...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Argus of this morning there appeared the article I had written on "Prisons & Prisoners". It appeared to me to read tolerably well but I am sure I do not know what...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Argus of this morning there was a leading article commenting on Duncan's appointment to the charge of the Gaols & showing pretty clearly it was impossible he coul...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Argus of this morning there was a paragraph stating that the Governor of the Gaol referred to by Mr Duffy was not the Governor of the Melbourne Gaol but an Up Cou...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Argus of this morning was published Jardine Smith's Leader on the Gaol. It commenced with an Apology for a previous article which had been inserted which the pres...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In The Argus this morning I was very sorry to see the death of Dempster's little boy recorded. This was the only son & his loss will I am sure be a great blow to both Mr...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Argus this morning there was a skit written in the style of "The Battle of Dorking". It was styled "The great disaster" & purported to be a report of the destruct...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'in the Army I spent most of my leisure reading in a desultory fashion anything that aroused my interest. Later on I bought or borrowed books on subjects not usually stud...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the beginning of September [1892], though feeling very ill, my father looked over a book of poems at the earnest entreaty of a stranger, Mr Dalmon, and made one or tw...Alfred Tennyson DalmonpoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the Bronte Museum, there is a manuscript French phrase book, written and used by the Rev. Patrick Bronte during this [February 1842] visit to Brussels. It is a little...Patrick Bronte Turenne's New French Manual for 1840Print: Book
1800-1849'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - "New Tales of a Grandfather" and "Robert of Paris". ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly Review [advertisements for forthcoming w...Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - "New Tales of a Grandfather" and "Robert of Paris". ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly Review [Review of Southey's "John Bunyan...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French newspapers, which I now began to peruse, not without...Charles Manby Smith [n/a][newspaper advertisements]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899'In the course of editing the volume of Lequat for the Hakluyt Society, I have had occasion to make extracts from the French Astronomer Puigre's journal 1760-1761. It is...S.P. Oliver PuigreJournalManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'In the course of my very desultory readings, I perused "Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson"; which I still consider to be a very amusing and very instructive piece of biograph...Thomas Carter James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book


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