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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at...Charles Causley Cecil Day-Lewis Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading a lovely book "And so to Bath" by Cecil Roberts. I must try to get it at home next hols.'Hilary Spalding Cecil RobertsAnd So to BathPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wonder what you think of my long silence after the receipt of your play ["A Tale of Young Lovers", late May]? I was just fiinishng a novel and putting off looking a...Joseph Conrad Cecil RobertsA Tale of Young Lovers: A Tragedy in Four ActsPrint: Book, playscript
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
    Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced t...		Howard Smith Cecil RobertsAnd so to BathPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced the main business of the...		Howard Smith Cecil RobertsAnd so to BathPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf Cecil TorrSmall Talk at Wreyland (vol 1 and/or 2)Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Cecil Freeman GreggBody behind the Bar, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, September 1846: 'We went into London one day [...] Burns's is a dull shop decidedly. You see the same books time after time [...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Cecilia TilleyChollertonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I took up "Chollerton" (a Church tale) and skimmed parts through the uncut leaves and was not fascinated. It seemed strained and the fasting was brought forward prominen...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Cecilia Frances TilleyChollerton: A tale of our own timesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The receipt of your song gave me very great pleasure. I cannot criticize it. In fact it took me all my time to read it, as I cannot easily decipher musical MS.' Arnold Bennett Cedric SharpeSongManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945

Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35

   Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. Account of the Excu...

Victor Alexander Celia Burrow[A letter offering to hold a meeting of the XII Bo...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to...Helen Rawlings Celia Cole[paper on de Quincey]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to...Celia Cole Celia Cole[paper on de Quincey]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
    Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced t...		Dorothea Taylor Celia FremlinThe Seven Chars of ChelseaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced the main business of the...		Dorothea Taylor Celia FremlinThe Seven Chars of ChelseaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pocket companions. the republican Bard & the philosopher...Robert Southey Cesare Marquis of Beccaria-Bonesana Dei Delitti e Delle Pene (On Crimes and Punishment...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cesare MussoliniItalian ExercisesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843: 'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have read many of his poems in Blackwood. He falls, to ...Elizabeth Barrett Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron LeighpoemsPrint: Unknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of a Couplet from Charles Aleyn, 'The Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Charles AleynThe Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been unexpectedly interested - unexpectedly as to degree - in my old friend Babbage's "Passages in the Life &c". I dare say you read it, and half forgot it, month...Harriet Martineau Charles BabbagePassages from the Life of a PhilosopherPrint: Book


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