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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'I hope you have read the Irish debates on the Union. I think you will have found in them much abuse, little eloquence, and...Mary Berry Colonel MathewletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Read letter from Rev R Garvey of Lincoln (?) reps. Lecture'.John Cole R GarveyletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Craster letter received'.. John Cole unknownletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Read a letter of interest from G Danes Esq.'John Cole G DanesletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899Harriet Martineau on the death of a Town Missionary acquaintance of hers: 'A friend of his at Birmingham wrote to me that he declared himself dying [of consumption] [...anon Harriet MartineauLetterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899Harriet Martineau on the death of a Town Missionary acquaintance of hers: 'A friend of his at Birmingham wrote to me that he declared himself dying [of consumption] [...anon Harriet MartineauLetterManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Actually Hotspur is reading from a letter and the quotation goes on: "'The purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you have named uncertain; the time itself unso... letterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'In a letter addressed to me, dated Newcastle Jan 5 1829 from his son, Robert Elliot Benick, thanking me for a copy of 'The Scarborough Souvenir', he writes "this would h...John Cole Robert BenickletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Yesterday I received a letter that gave me much pleasure from a poor fellow student of mine who has been all winter very ill, and seems to be but little better even now....Robert Louis Stevenson a fellow student of Robert Louis StevensonletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Jenkin wrote to say he would second me in such a nice little notelet. I shall go in for it (the Savile I mean) whether "V.H." is accepted or not, being now a man of mean...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Charles Fleeming JenkinletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Mme Garschine's was rather sad and gave me the blues a bit'.Robert Louis Stevenson Sophie GarschineletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I have received such a nice long letter (four sides) from Leslie Stephen today; about my ?V. Hugo?. It is accepted.?Robert Louis Stevenson Leslie StephenletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899?I send you L. Stephen?s letter, which is certainly very kind and jolly to get. Please show it, if you get a chance, to Mrs Sitwell.' Robert Louis Stevenson Leslie StephenletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899?You can tell Lang this. I heard from him, and will answer soon.?Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew LangletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899?Your letter came this morning. I own I am troubled about its contents: I fear for your health, dear friend, in such an ordeal as that to which you propose to subject you...Robert Louis Stevenson Frances SitwellletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899?I got a quiet seat behind a yew hedge and went away into a meditation. It [i.e. the windswept scene in the garden at Swanston Cottage] somehow reminded me of your letter...Robert Louis Stevenson Frances SitwellletterManuscript: Letter, Passage refers to various letters from Frances Sitwell to RLS, dates and subjects unspecified here. Letters received by RLS before 4 June 1874 [date ascribed by the editors to the cited passage].
1800-1849'It is already past twelve o'clock, and I am tired and sleepy; but I cannot go to rest without answering the kind little note which you sent me, and acknowledging these n...Thomas Carlyle Margaret A. CarlyleLetterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899I don?t know whether I imagined it, but I thought there seemed something wrong between us this afternoon.[?] Perhaps, however, you may think I have behaved nastily to you...Robert Louis Stevenson Bob StevensonletterManuscript: Letter
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 November 1933: 'I read your letter with great pleasure in Time and Tide; it seemed to me put with masterly brevity; most true.'Virginia Woolf Quentin BellletterPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'This [i.e. letter] had been lying a long while. I must send it off in proof I didn’t quite forget you. I saw yours to the Baronick, and was surprised at one piece of int...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles BaxterletterManuscript: Letter


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