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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
 
1800-1849'The Princess received a letter of twenty-eight pages, from the Princess Charlotte, which looked like the writing of a chambermaid, and appeared to me wholly illegible; b...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Princess Charlotte LetterManuscript: 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'Yesterday Badams wrote me (from admist the 'wild beasts of Ephesus,' as he calls the new Mining Companies, with whom he is in constant treaty about some important smelti...Thomas Carlyle BadamsLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'He has written to me twice since his departure; he insists that I shall take a little pony of his with all its furniture; ride home on it thro' the Peak country in Derby...Thomas Carlyle BadamsLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I have had a letter from Mrs Montague and, (which is still more extraordinary) I have answered it. What on earth did you say, to make her so good to me? She could not h...Jane Baillie Welsh Mrs MontaguLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'She sulked for four and twenty hours, and then wrote me a long epistle; wherein she demonstrated (not by geometrical reasonings) that I was utterly lost to all sense of ...Jane Baillie Welsh Grace Baillie WelshLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I have had an answer from Mrs Montagu full of rhetoric, and kindness; but no matter for the rhetoric! She is good to me; and charity covereth a multitude of sins- She s...Jane Baillie Welsh Mrs MontaguletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'The gay and free S.C. has at last written to me; but has not pleased me: does he think I can do anything with my “Spring-time”, that’s what I want to know.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinLetterManuscript: Letter
1600-1699'and att night, I had read a letter that Came from Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby Richard RhodesletterManuscript: Letter
1600-1699'after I perused Iohn wass his accussinge Letter, I went to priuatt praier'Margaret Hoby John Wass[e]letterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'You are quite right, according to me, in being dissatisfied with my work; but not right at all in expressing your dissatisfaction as you did. I have never written rudely...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Glasgow BrownletterUnknown
1800-1849'Yesterday I had a letter from Murray in answer to one I had written in something of a determined stile for I had no idea of permitting him to start from the course after...Walter Scott John MurrayLetterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Translation enclosed, very literal, for the fun’s sake. I have taken stock/made acquaintance of the ["Treatise of Marine Works" which you have published in 1874 […] Kin...Robert Louis Stevenson Frederic AndreletterManuscript: Letter
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
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 June 1838: 'I have seen an extract from a private letter of Mr Chorley editor of the Athenaeum, which speaks [italics]huge[...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Fothergill Chorleyletter (extract)Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one in the papers -- as secondary to Burdett and Canning....George Gordon Lord Byron Douglas Kinnairdletter (ie article?)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have been reading a paper of my father's in Nature.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Stevensonletter (in "Nature")Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'(I am reading from her reply): "I hope I shall remember to go Church and thank God for our victory and our safety. I expect I shall talk of the future and its prospects ... unknownletter about the post-war worldManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.'Mary Shelley Thomas PaineLetter addressed to the Abbi Raynal on the Affairs...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 December 1842: 'Ah -- my poor dearest Papa! How I remember the coming of that letter to apprise him of the loss of his ...Edward Moulton-Barrett Letter announcing financial/property lossManuscript: Letter


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