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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Monday, 11 June 1827: 'The attendance on the committee and afterwards the Gnl meeting of the Oil Gas Company took up my morning and the rest dribbled away in correctin...Walter Scott Benjamin DisraeliVivian GreyPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 28 June 1827: 'Visited on invitation a fine old little commodore Trunnion who, in reading a part of Napoleon's history with which he had himself been interes...anon Walter ScottLife of NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 4 July 1827: 'Read De Vere the rest. It is well written in point of language and sentiment but has too little action in it to be termd a pleasing Novel. Eve...Walter Scott Robert WardDe VerePrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 9 July 1827: 'At eleven [am] went by appointment with Colin Mackenzie to the New Edinr. Academy. In the fifth class, Mr. Mitchell's, we heard Greek of which I...Pupils in fifth class at New Edinburgh Academy Greek textsPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 1 August 1827: 'Smoked a cigar after dinner, laughd with my daughters and read them the review of Hoffmann's production out of Gillies's new Foreign review....Walter Scott Walter Scottarticle on E. T. W. HoffmannPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Friday, 3 August 1827: 'Huntley Gordon lent me a volume of his father's Manuscript Memoirs. They are not without interest, for Pryce Gordon though a bit of a roue, is ...Walter Scott Pryce GordonMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Friday, 14 September 1827: 'Read a Refutation as it calls itself of Napoleon's history. It is so very polite and accomodating that every third word is a concession -- ...Walter Scott 'Refutation' of Walter Scott's Life of NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 18 September 1827: 'Whiled away the evening over one of Miss Austen's Novels; there is a truth of painting in her writings which always delights me. They do n...Walter Scott Jane Austen Print: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 27 September 1827: 'We dined at Gattonside with Mr. Bembridge who kindly presented me with 6 bottles of super-excellent Jamaica Rum and with a manuscript col...Walter Scott  Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Some months since I joined with other literary folks in subscribing a petition for a pension to Mrs. G- of L-n which we thought was a tribute merited by her works as an ...Walter Scott Anne GrantMemoirs of a Highland LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 14 November 1827: 'Read the Gazette of the great battle of Navarrino in which we have thumped the Turks very well.'Walter Scott GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Thursday, 15 November 1827: 'Met with Chambers and complimented him about his making a clever book of the 1745 for Constable's Miscellany. It is really a lively work a...Walter Scott Robert ChambersHistory of the Rebellion 1745-6Print: Book
1800-1849Monday, 14 January 1828: 'I read Cooper's new novel work, the Red Rover; the current of the [novel] rolls entirely upon the Ocean. Something there is too much of nauti...Walter Scott CooperRed RoverPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 28 January 1828: 'I have read Cooper's Prairie, better I think than his Red Rover in which you never got foot on shore and to understand entirely the incidents...Walter Scott James Fenimore CooperPrairiePrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday 21 February 1828: 'Last night after dinner I rested from my work and read third part of Sayings and Doings, which shows great knowledge of life in a certain s...Walter Scott Theodore HookSayings and Doings (third series)Print: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 23 February 1828: 'I saw at the printing office [Ballantyne's] a part of a review on Leigh Hunt's Anecdotes of Byron by Wilson. It is written with power (app...Walter Scott Wilsonreview of Leigh Hunt, Anecdotes of ByronUnknown
1800-1849Thursday, 13 March 1828: 'I found that like the foolish virgins the servants had omitted to get oil for my lamp so I was obliged to be idle all the evening. But though...Walter Scott Gerald GriffinTales of the Munster FestivalsPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 28 March 1828: 'Read Tales of an Antiquary, one of the chime of bells which I have some hand in setting a ringing. He really is entitled to the name of an Anti...Walter Scott James ThomsonTales of an AntiquaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 8 April 1828: 'Learning from Washington Irving's description of Stratford that the hall of Sir Thomas Lucy the Justice who renderd Warwickshire too hot for Sh...Walter and Anne ScottWashington IrvingSketch BookPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 26 May 1828: 'I walkd down to call with [Samuel] Rogers on Mrs. D'Arblay. She shewd me some notes which she was making about her novels which she induced me to...Walter Scott Frances Burneynotes 'about her novels'Manuscript: Unknown


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