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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Mr Layard has lent me Sir Humphry Davy's "Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher". It is a posthumous publication, & the editor says that "Had his lif...Sarah Harriet Burney Humphry DavyConsolations in Travel, or the Last days of a Phil...Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr M- along. I lay back and listened to all his plans for the regeneration of Scotland - including the one in which he is to be editor of a terrifically high-brow and in...William Soutar M[personal writings]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Mr Mill's great work on India will soon be published in 3 vol. quarto. Sir Samuel saw the two first, and seems to think that it will be extremely curious, and very well ...Samuel Romilly James MillHistory of British India, TheManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'.Harold J. Morland Harold J. Morland[paper on William Morris]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'.Harold J. Morland William Morris Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'.Adelaide Morland William Morris Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Moultrie's poem seems spirited but I have had no time to study it well.'Alfred Tennyson John MoultrieThe Black FencePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale Arthur MurphyGrecian Daughter, the: A tragedyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonIrene: A Historical TragedyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale Joseph AddisonCatoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale George LilloLondon Merchant, or the History of George BarnwellPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry JonesEarl of Essex, The, a tragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Murray made me a present of the 5 Octavo Vols of Mr Irvings Works, the Sketch-Book & some others: I do understand this but it is not of Importance that I should'George Crabbe Washington Irving[Works]Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr N. never knew, till long after Shirley was published, that she wrote books; and came in, cold & disapproving one day, to ask her if the report he had heard at Keighle...Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr North has been reading Lady Morgan's "O'Donnel", and is delighted with it. He says he never read a book that amused him so much, and that it has the merit of being mo...Mr North Sydney, Lady MorganO'Donnel: A National TalePrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr P was in bed reading the Newspaper, P. Walker was a little better this morn then I went to see the old Peter who is also a little better. After breakfast Peter ...James Bennetts Williams Thomas De Witt Talmage[unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he afterwards solicited Mr Fleetwood, the patentee of Drur...Samuel Johnson Samuel JohnsonIreneManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he afterwards solicited Mr Fleetwood, the patentee of Drur...Peter Garrick Samuel JohnsonIreneManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr Peter Garrick, the elder brother of David, told me that he remembered Johnson's borrowing the "Turkish History" of him, in order to form his play from it'.Samuel Johnson [Turkish History]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr Pratt & I began to write nearly about the same time & his Sympathy & my Village were [cancelled] nearly [ end cancelled] contemporaries, but this soon ceased & I was ...George Crabbe Samuel Jackson PrattSympathy; a PoemPrint: Unknown


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